On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Joe Loiacono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the chief difference between COUNTER and GAUSE is simply in > the retrieval of the information.
Actually, the difference is the storage of the data. RRDs store rates, period. With a COUNTER or DERIVE DS, the rate is calculated based on the difference between the new value and the previous value and the elapsed time between the updates. With a GAUGE DS, the value given to rrdtool is assumed to be a rate and stored as is, without regard to the previous value or the time delta. To my knowledge, this is the only difference between these DS types. -Sam _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
