Daniel Hilst wrote: what must be the most frequently asked question on this list
>2) The feed it with: >rrdtool update test.rrd 1334578211:10 >rrdtool update test.rrd 1334578221:0 > > >I get >1334578210 9.000000 >1334578220 1.000000 Terse answer: This is normal behaviour, it is **EXACTLY** how RRD is intended to work, and no you can't turn it off. Garrulous answer: RRD is designed to do one thing well, normalise and store data at specified resolutions, in an economic way. It is not a general purpose database - if you want to store arbitrary data for arbitrary times and get the original data out then you should use a regular database. **ALL** data is normalised and consolidated according to the parameters used when creating the database. With some care* it is possible to make the normalisation a null operation, and using a consolidation process of one data point consolidated into one consolidated data point will make the consolidation a null operation as well - but both processes are still performed. Alex has an excellent set of tutorials at http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/ In particular, see "Rates, normalizing and consolidating" * To make normalisation a null operation, you must supply data values every step time, and they must be timestamped **exactly** on the step time boundary. These boundaries are always an integer multiple of step time since unix epoch (midnight, Jan 1, 1970 UTC) and this cannot be changed. -- Simon Hobson Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
