[rrd-users] Re: MRTGw/RRDTool: bits or bytes?

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Joe Loiacono wrote:

 |
 | I'm running mrtg-2.9.2 with rrdtool-1.0.33. In mrtg I set
 | [options] to growright, bits. It appears however, that rrdtool
 | is storing bytes, not bits. Do I have to multiply by 8 in
 | rrdtool?

option bits always had only an influence on the graphing (also in
mrtg)

if you want your octets displayed in bits you have to multiply the
data by 8

tobi
 |
 | Thanks, Joe
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