[rrd-users] Re: Lower interval than 5 minutes

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 12:31:29PM -0400, Hickey, Brian wrote:
> But I was wondering if 5 minutes was too long of
> a time period to collect stats?

That will depend on your goal.  You will *always* have an average,
no matter what you will do *unless* you're monitoring each single
bit by itself.  And even then: when exactly was it transmitted?

> I thought I saw a document somewhere of how MRTG works in detail, but I
> can't seem to find it.  If anyone knows of it, please let me know.

the faq site perhaps?  faq.mrtg.org

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