Alex, Thanks for getting back to me.
These are actually rates. It is a CPU utilization rate. These values are point in time. So, at 2/3/03 11:00 CPU utilization is at 10% Does that help for clarification? On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Alex van den Bogaerdt < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 09:30:03AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > > I would like to import a very large dataset lets say 100MB text file. > The > > file consists like this. > > > > Date Value > > 2/3/03 11:00 10 > > 2/3/03 11:01 12 > > 2/3/03 11:02 13 > > 2/3/03 11:03 30 > > 2/3/03 11:04 12 > > 2/3/03 11:05 13 > > > > It keeps going on. I can generate the epoch on the left side. However, I > am > > unclear how to load this into rrdtool. I have followed the tutorial and > I > > was not able to model my data properly. Can someone please show me an > > example for the data above? > > What do these numbers mean? > When were they valid? > > > RRDtool is not a graphing program. Use e.g. gnuplot for that. > > If these numbers are rates, you still need to know when these rates > were valid. For instance: "12", does this mean a rate between > "2/3/03 11:00" and "2/3/03 11:01" or between > "2/3/03 11:01" and "2/3/03 11:02"? A small but significant difference. > RRDtool uses end times (thus: updating for 2/3/03 11:01 is updating the > interval upto and including 2/3/03 11:01). > > Are these times in some local time or in UTC? If they are in local time, > make sure to compensate for this and don't forget about daylight saving > (if any). > > You will need to convert each pair into <timestamp>:<value>, and then > give those as input to rrdtool. This is a *very* basic operation, so > perhaps you need to explain the problem you encounter a bit more. > > -- > Alex van den Bogaerdt > http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/ > > _______________________________________________ > rrd-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users >
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