Thanks Alex, I'll give it a try
/andy On Monday 23 October 2006 18:37, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:51:04PM +0200, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote: > > Then either: > > -1- As soon as possible, read the counters and feed this known data > > to rrdtool. > > -2- make sure to know the exact reset time, and perform an update: > > "rrdtool update yourfile.rrd <timstamp>:0 > > (assuming the counters start at zero; they probably will!) > > > > Either way you will loose some data. The interval between the last > > update before your reset, upto the interval following the first one > > after the reset, will be lost. > > Correction: the interval between the last update before the reset, > and the first update thereafter, will be lost. > > So: > > 1: update > 2: reset > 3: update > 4: update > > Between (1) and (2) is lost, > between (2) and (3) is lost, > between (3) and (4) is known again. -- Andy Riebs HP -- Better Together High Performance Computing -- XC Linux Software <http://www.hp.com/go/clusters> (w) +1.603.884.1521 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (h) [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are not necessarily those of HP -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
