On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 05:31:42AM -0700, Amir Baninajar wrote:

> The problem is that when I actually look at the data stored in the first RRA, 
> all have values in decimal place (eg 1.6366666667e+00 etc).  I know that 
> RRDtool stores figures in floating point format, 
> but shouldn't it have all zeros after decimal place instead of other values? 
> The first RRA averages data everytime it reads, which means that there is 
> nothing to average and it should store the integer as it is.
> 
> here are the create and update statements
> 
> create "TestRRD.rrd" --start 1146744377 --step 600 
> DS:PolImgTo:GAUGE:1200:U:U 
> DS:ITNImgTo:GAUGE:1200:U:U 
> DS:MFImgTo:GAUGE:1200:U:U 
> (there some more similar DS statements here)
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:144 
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:720 
> RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:144:365
> 
> update "TestRRD.rrd" 1146744651:1:3:0:(some more similar values here)

1146744651 modulo 600 is not 0.  That is the "problem" (actually: a feature).

See the tutorials, the documentation, the detailed explanation on my site.

-- 
Alex van den Bogaerdt
http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/

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