[rrd-users] Re: How does rrdtool behave if I store 5-minute-values for one year?

[Serge Maandag]

> So the consolidation is just good for saving disk space?

Yes, at least that's the only reason I know.

> Am I right, that I would just have to keep 1-year 5-minute-values and
I can also get the cf MAX out of it?

Almost, if you want average values and max values, you need both an
AVERAGE and a MAX rra in you rrd database.

serge.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Harren [mailto:sh at abovenet.de] 
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:29 PM
To: Serge Maandag; rrd-users at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [rrd-users] How does rrdtool behave if I store
5-minute-values for one year?



Am I right, that I would just have to keep 1-year 5-minute-values and I
can 
also get the cf MAX out of it?

Best regards,

Stephan
Am Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2003 13:48 schrieb Serge Maandag:
> rrdtool uses the values the rrd holds. For the given time frame you
want
> to graph, it will try to take the highest resolution data.
>
> If you just store 5 minute samples, it will never even think of using
a
> 2 hours average.
> 2 hours average samples can only be displayed if your rrd database has
> an RRA that averages over 2 hours.
>

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