<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Steve Shipway <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-NZ"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">RRDTool Data Normalisation.  RRDTool interpolates the data to fit into the predefined time ‘buckets’.  You cannot store the data with the exact time you enter them (well, unless you do some very weird things using a 1second step and large heartbeat but that causes other problems) unless you ensure each data point is logged exactly on a time window boundary.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">See Alex’s excellent tutorial:  <a href="http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/process.php" target="_blank">http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/process.php</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d"></span><br></p></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Thanks for the link, Steve. It proved helpful.<br>

<br>Kind Regards,<br>Chris<br>