[rrd-users] Re: TOTAL consolidation function

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Peter Amstutz wrote:

 | The second problem is that we're trying to graph changes in descrete
 | values, but we're not concerned with the actual rates.  For this, the
 | "total" consolidation function makes the most sense, since we would like
 | to know the actual total number of errors that occured.  However, I
 | gathered from the mailing list archives this feature was removed some time
 | ago.  Why was this done, and are there any patches floating around that
 | might re-add the feature?

the reason for this is, that mrtg is an entirely time dependant
beast ... a total os a completely square thing in this equation ...
you can not say total, you must say: total from time x to time y
... and if you say this, you can say average from time x to time y
multiplied by y - x ... and there ... puff comes your total ... out
of the blue without any hacking required

cheers
tobi

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