Our Voltaire Infiniband switches (and perhaps others?) don't wrap their
traffic counters back to zero when they hit their maximum value.
Instead, they simply report "overflow" until a procedure is run to reset
them to zero.
On one of our mid-sized clusters, a handful of port counters are already
overflowing after a couple of hours, and more enter that state as the
day goes on.
To keep useful statistics generally available, we have a procedure that
resets the counters to zero once a day. Unfortunately, when we reset the
counters, rrdtool assumes that the counters have wrapped, and infers
very large traffic bursts through little-used ports.
I've been contemplating adding an `rrdtool reset` command that would
replace the last_ds value and timestamp with specified values, but would
prefer to learn that a better way to handle this already exists :)
TIA
/andy
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