On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:15:13PM +0200, Stefan Moser wrote:
> ABSOLUTE, like DERIVED and COUNTER, are used for things that DO have a > relation to time. and so is GAUGE. Using GAUGE to display other stuff not related to time is a hack. A very useful one, but still a hack. Internally rrdtool works with normalized rates. ABSOLUTE, DERIVED, COUNTER and GAUGE determine how the input is transformed into a not-yet-normalized rate. GAUGE simply means the input already _is_ a rate. People that don't understand this important feature have trouble understanding why rrdtool is displaying "2.5" for the amount of people entering a room. This is because it is not 2.5 people, it is 2.5 people per time interval. -- Alex van den Bogaerdt http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/ -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
