<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Sorry for these posts I am trying to relocate a thread from rrd-developers here to rrd-users where it belongs</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>========================================</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Thanks a lot for your answers and your understanding.</span></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div
style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">>You've posted your question to rrd-developers, but this isn't a<br>>developer question. You should post on rrd-users.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Yes, I realized that too, I am still waiting for the approval message for the rrd-users list :-(</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">......................<br><br>>Minor problem, there 86400 seconds in a day.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">I must have scrabled the numbers when I
typed the numbers, sorry for that. It still makes sense if I say "daytime".</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br><br>>Bigger problem, the heartbeat, or time limit between successive updates<br>>without an unknown, is in the DS line and you've set it to 100000<br>>seconds, or just over a day. Unless you update once a day, your graph<br>>will be unknown.<br><br>>The 365 value is in the RRA "steps" field.
You're saying you want to<br>>combine 365 primary data points (each of which is 46800 seconds large)<br>>to turn into a single RRA point. So the RRA consists of steps that are<br>>197 days in size, and you only want to record 10 of those steps.<br><br>>It seems like if you really want your RRD to have primary data points of<br>>1 day in size, you'll probably want your RRA "steps" to be set at 1, and<br>>you'll want to keep a large number of rows (3655 or so for 10 years<br>>worth).<br><br>>And on the RRD, you'll want to turn the heartbeat up to whatever<br>>distance you can take before declaring the interval unknown. That field<br>>is in seconds.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">That means I had it all wrong. I will give it a try with these new values</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div
style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">How about the Xff factor. I can't say I totally understand the mening of this one.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Is it the percentage of the values you will accept as missing before you declare the missing</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">vaulues as Unknown. What value should I use for this if I have just data for 1-5 samples </div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">out for 30 in a month if I still want rrdtools to interpolate and to put something there for me</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br>Thank you</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica,
sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Cristian</div></div><div style=""></div>
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