[rrd-developers] RFC new DS type DGAUGE

[Tobias Oetiker]

Yesterday kevin brintnall wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:37:12AM +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> > sum of values divided by number of values ...
>
> I can see how it would work for multiple simultaneous updates.. i.e.:
>
>   update(t:v1 t:v2 t:v3);
>
> It's not immediately obvious to me how it would work for updates in the
> same step that are made separately.  i.e.:
>
>   update(t:v1);  update(t:v2);  update(t:v3).
>
> Where would we keep track of how many times we've already updated for a
> given step ?

updates to individual datasources, always imply updates with NaN to
the other datasources ...

cheers
tobi

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