[rrd-developers] DS idea

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

>>   GAUGELATEST
>
> Whatever it's called, I'd certainly like to see a DS type which is like 
> GAUGE but without the normalisation to the interval.  There are many 
> applications for which this would be useful.
>


I'm probably missing something here.

What can you do with that, which cannot be achieved with step==1, 
steps=={whatever},heartbeat>={whatever} and CF LAST (or, as in this thread, 
MAX) ?