> So, as you can see, I'm not doing anything too crazy. What I'm > confused about is that when I read the data back from the database via > a perl script (or via rrddump), it is not showing up as an integer. I
Welcome to the most frequent of frequently asked questions. This is known as DATA NORMALISATION and is a standard feature of RRDTool. When graphing network traffic (the original use of RRD) it is great; if you think of RRD as a traditional database that stores exactly what you're given, it is not. http://rrdtool.vandenbogaerdt.nl/process.php This is the best explanation of what's going on and why. In short, RRD is adjusting your data so that the time component fits exactly on the interval boundary, and in doing so also adjusts the value under the assumption that when viewed this close it approximates a straight line. This is only problematic if the values are small integers (eg, number of pages printed on a printer in a minute). Steve Steve Shipway ITS Unix Services Design Lead University of Auckland, New Zealand Floor 1, 58 Symonds Street, Auckland Phone: +64 (0)9 3737599 ext 86487 DDI: +64 (0)9 924 6487 Mobile: +64 (0)21 753 189 Email: [email protected] Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
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