[mrtg] Re: Some expert advice needed

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 03:59:51PM +0600, Saqib bin Sohail wrote:
> My purpose of graphing the router traffic is not for history purposes
> rather for analysis purpose and am more interested in graphing the
> second by second or 5 second by 5 second traffic readings.
> 
> Mrtg is fixed for a minimum of 5 minute updates. Can I get that much
> resolution through RRDTool.

Yes and no.

You can have one second precision using RRDtool.

Ask yourself:
Are you able to collect the numbers that accurately ?

If you collect statistics every second and if you're only one
tenth of a second off, that's already 10 percent...

HTH
Alex

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