[mrtg] Maximum numbers for MRTG

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:20:34PM +0530, Shyam wrote:

> P.S. : Any idea what the maximum value that MRTG can accept is ?

MRTG/rateup  uses a text field for the numbers on the first line
of the log file and use 32-bit integers for the other lines.

The text fields have no maximum AFAIK.  The 32-bit integers are
limited to slightly less than 4.3 M.

So, *numbers* above 2^32 can be collected but resulting *rates*
above 2^32 cannot be stored.

For a GAUGE, the resulting rate equals the collected number (if
we forget about normalizing) unless you perform calculations on
the target.

HTH
Alex

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