Steve Shipway <[email protected]> wrote:

> You seem to be misunderstanding how RRDTool works.
> 
> Remember that, after every update of an RRA, the oldest value is thrown away 
> to make room for the new one.  So, the 'first' time (the timestamp of the 
> oldest bucket in the RRA) will increase every time you update, as the last 
> bucket is thrown away.
> 
> Also, the 'first' value is the oldest bucket, *whether or not it has been 
> filled*.

As I pointed out, it looks like the documentation is a little misleading on 
this. Where teh database has been filled and old data thrown away then the 
documentation is correct - but in the OPs case, it's misleading by talking 
about the "first data sample entered" into the RRA.

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