Hi Bohdan, In you case it may make sense to use the data source type DERIVE with a minimal value of 0 this will have the effect of just ignoring the 'reset' ... and logging one unknown interval ...
cheers tobi Today Bohdan Linda wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a ISP provider, who has data limits. These limits are per month > based. Thus I have created limit measurement based upon iptables and every > month I zero the counter. So far ok. > > I decided, that it would be nice also to monitor trafic. I am using the > same values as for limits. But it has one drawback. When I zero the > counters, rrdtool assumes that counter overflow occured and creates > incredible traffic spike. > > My idea is to set hard limits to rrd database, which will be aligned with > connection bandwidth, but if doing so I would get "Unknon". > > The question is, can I configure data source not to perfrom overflow checks? > > Kind regards, > Bohdan > > -- > Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users > WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi > -- ETH Zurich Tobias Oetiker, IT Support Group D-ITET (ISG.EE) ETL F24.2, Physikstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone +41 44 63 25286, http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker/ -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
