[rrd-users] Re: RRD DS;heartbeat and MRTG

[Chris Josephes]

On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:

> This makes a total of approximately 797 days.
> 
> To really log what MRTG logs, you should be doing:
> 
> d)  600 samples
> w)  700 samples (600 * 30 minutes  +  600 * 5 minutes)
> m)  775 samples (600 *  2 hours  + above)
> y)  797 samples (732 *  1 day + above,  rounded up)
> 
> This is because RRDtool starts all RRAs at "now" and MRTG does not.

Okay, I think I got it.

But if I decided on a 10 minute or 15 minute interval, would it improve
performance to reduce the number of samples accordingly?


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