[rrd-users] Re: Graphing Very Small Numbers

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

Cliff wrote:

> But I have to multiply by at least 100K in my mrtg configs.
> I assume this is because the 5-minute average that mrtg does
> by default produces an amount that is less than 1, which MRTG
> ignores because it's not a whole number.

Almost right.  MRTG doesn't ignore small numbers, it truncates
numbers to integers.  0.00001 isn't ignored, it is truncated to 0.

> So will RRDTool do a better job of graphing small numbers?

It will.
<checking source>
It can do atobytes if you wish (that's 10^-18).

> Or how are other folks graphing numbers that 5-minute-average out to be
> less than 1?

I have graphed such a counter as a percentage of a declared maximum
allowed number.  If you think 10 errors per 300 seconds is the limit,
10 should be equal to 100% and thus each error should be 10%  This
comes down to multiplying the counter with 3000.  If you get one
error in an interval, mrtg will calculate 3000/300 == 10.
It is probably best to use unscaled[] for these kind of images.

HTH
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