[rrd-users] Re: textual archiving (not a bug)

[steve rader]

 > From: Tobias Oetiker
 > lets assume you are running this at 8am. The data in the DAY rra ends at
 > 00:00 GMT yesterday ... the data in the 5MIN rra goes up to 5 minutes ago.
 > So in order to fulfill your request for data between NOW and 24h ago (8am 
 > to
 > 8am local time) you will get 5 minute values as this is the resolution whe
 > re
 > the requested interval can be covered best ... (There are other cases wher
 > e
 > the data selection algorithm might be improved, but here I think it is
 > working correctly) ...

Okay... that's cool... I'll try to remember to Use the Source
a bit before leaping to conclusions.  =:)

 > In other words, as I sugested, I would use rrdtool graph with PRINT only 
 > to fetch data in the manner the requestor wanted it ... 

Well, I understand but I think it's more elegant to just use
rrdtool fetch with --start and --end, which seems to behave
very nicely.

later
steve
- - -
systems guy
wiscnet.net

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