[rrd-users] Re: Dilemma in using COUNTER to monitor a system that could crash and reset its parameters

[Eric Robibaro]

> 2)       or use the data Type DERIVE to take into account for a negative
> rate (i.e. a reading drop), but DERIVE (and ABSOLUTE for that matter)
> does not have overflow protection that I desire.
Just how could absolute overflow?  (except for hitting 2*10^32 as a number of 
seconds?  And if you have 30-year uptime on a machine, I wanna study this...)
I think for uptime absolute is probably your best bet, since counter64 will 
have the same problems as counter.

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