[mrtg] Re: Calculation of Average

[Larry Sheldon]

> This may have already been answered so I apologise in advance. (Side =
> note, can someone tell me where the list archives are kept?)

Discussed as recently as within the last 24 hours.

See the words that look a lot like this at the bottom of each of these
messages:


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> I'm interested in how MRTG calculates its average value. On for example =
> a daily graph of bitsin vs bitsout, are the average values average over =
> the 24 hour period, or average between the current and last poll?

The evidence is that the first graph is a plot of the current-poll-
value-minus-last-poll-value-all-divided-by-the-number-of-seconds-between-polls.

The next graph is a plot of the averages of the values from the first graph
in groups of 6.

And so on.
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