Hi Dave, Today Dave Whitehead wrote:
> I have a RRD (step 300 secs) - and one RRA (12 PDP per row). It's a > GAUGE (min 0, max 60000). > > > > If I update this DS *much* more often than 300 secs what effect will > that have - eg maybe every 20-30 secs. Will RRD "sort it out"? yes > > > Reason is that although I'm only wanting 5 min resolution on the DS - > the data provider produces output every 20-30 seconds and *stopping* it > doing that is tricky. this is fine ... rrdtool will assume a stair-step curve where each mesurement defines the value at the end (time whise) of a step. The space below the curve gets integrated in the process and a new step with the same space below get created for inclusion in the RRAs. cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
