so in order to store 365 days what would you suggest me to do? the thing is that everything was fine for 3 or 4 months and then suddenly the yearly graph went boom ... is this because I was only storing for approx 158 days?
thanks alex for your response ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex van den Bogaerdt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: [rrd-users] Re: rrdtool graph timeout > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:18:04PM +0300, Paul Klinaftakis wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have created an RRD file with the following definition: > > > > --step 3600 > > DS:channels:GAUGE:7200:U:U > > > > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:3600 > > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:3700 > > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:3775 > > RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:3797 > > This means for all of the RRAs: > each CDP is 1 PDP. This means each CDP is 1 hour (step size). > So, you're saving 3797 hours at maximum. That's 158 days or so. > > You didn't quite understand what parameters to use. Please read > the tutorial. > > The way you did it, the smaller RRAs are a complete waste of space. > > (Don't shoot the messenger!) > > HTH > Alex > > -- > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users > WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi > > -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
