Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: > Judith L. Pancho judith.pancho-at-latitudebroadband.com |Lists| wrote: > >> I'm using rrdtool to monitor the network traffic. ... >> >> Your help would be greatly appreciated. >> > > Hi Judith, > > If you update your rrd file exactly on step boundaries, the output data > will be exactly your input data. So if you want your output data exacly, > make sure your timestamp on update is exactly e.g. 12:00:00 and not > 12:00:02. > > When the update timestamp is slightly off, rrdtool compensates the input > value for that, because internally it doesn't store your update time. > So, in effect, rrdtool compensates for my sloppy system where cron jobs > don't run EXACTLY on time. That is probably why you don't see your input > values exactly on output. > > Peter > > Thanks Guy for the clarification that helps me a lot...
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