[rrd-developers] RFC new DS type DGAUGE

[larryjadams at comcast.net]

Tobi,

Will that break my spike kill hack?

Larry

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch>
> I have been doing rrdtool tutorials and a Bof at LISA this week and
> one toppic that keeps coming up is that good old
> 
>  Why does updating a GAUGE type DS with X cause Y to be stored.
> 
> I keep explaining the whole re-sampling issue and people eventually
> understand it, but in the light of makeing the customers happy, I
> have come up with the following idea.
> 
>  A new datasource type called DGAUGE. It would always *round down*
>  the timestamp to the last step.
> 
> To not break things too much, multiple updates to DGAUGE within the
> same STEP would get averaged without regards to the actual
> timestamp the update was provided.
> 
> In that way, peple would see the data they put in, appear
> in 1 step AVERAGE, MIN and MAX RRAs as long as they manage to put
> in only one update per step.
> 
> coments ?
> 
> cheers
> tobi
> 
> 
> 
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