On 16.10.2012, at 13:06, Simon Hobson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ryan Kubica wrote: >> 'Exact values for an interval' and 'exact value at a time' are >> different things. >> To store the exact value you want with no averaging just store it on >> the step-size interval boundary, rrdtool won't average those. ie: >> binary data is no problem 0/1 if stored on the interval. > > However, if the OP wants to keep that data for min 5 months, at 1 > minute resolution, then that's a lot of samples. If, as is hinted, > changes are infrequent, then that's a very inefficient way of storing > them - ie there are other tools that would be more appropriate for > that. I agree ... but just for the sakes of argument, if he was certain that there never would be more than one change per hour, I think it would be possible to reconstruct the time of change from an hourly average, if the update was applied at the time of the change. tobi > RRD will certainly store his other (scalar) data though. > > -- > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users > _______________________________________________ rrd-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users
