[rrd-users] beginner question

[Wendy Faulkner]

Well, I read through the tutorial, thought I had it all under control, but my
first try goes blammy.  

I created a database similar to one in the tutorial:

rrdtool create mail.rrd DS:input:COUNTER:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:600
RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:700 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:775 RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:797
RRA:MAX:0.5:1:600 RRA:MAX:0.5:6:700 RRA:MAX:0.5:24:775 RRA:MAX:0.5:288:797



I started a script to update it regularly (it was planned to be every 5 mins,
but I ran it every minute just to try and fill up the DB.)  

Its been updated via:

/usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.33/bin/rrdtool update mail.rrd N:613
(many similar ones - the mailq has always been 600-650 mails during this time.)

But when I do a rrdtool fetch mail.rrd AVERAGE to see what's in there, I get:

...

 992371800: NaN
 992372100: NaN
 992372400: 4.5449389354e+07
 992372700: 2.8633115300e+07
 992373000: 4.2707019434e+07
 992373300: 2.8875768826e+07
 992373600: 2.8394506023e+07
 992373900: NaN


a.  Those numbers don't look anything like 600 or so, and 
b.  They always display in scientific notation.  

Is there any way I can get the numbers in a more readable format, and any idea
why they're not like what's getting inputted?  (Having the same problem with a
load-average DB I created as well.)  

So I figure I'm missing something painfully obvious but aren't sure what it is.
The examples in the tutorials all worked fine....  Thanks for any suggestions.
W
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