[rrd-users] Re: reasonable maximums

[Stephan Harren]

It's 100*1000*1000 (because 1 Megabyte means 1024*1024, but 1 Megabit 
means 1000*1000, the theoretical maximum on a FastEthernet is 
100.000.000). But if you store the data in bytes and multiply it by 8 
when graphing, your maximum should be 12.500.000 (because the maximum is 
still 100.000.000, divided by 8  will be bytes).

HTH,

Stephan

Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

>Hi, I was unsure of how my graphs would be built initially, as I'm
>monitoring ipfw rules with a theoretical limit of 100 megs (although in
>theory the loopback can go faster, we'll assume it won't).
>
>It probably doesn't matter, but my counters return bytes, but the standard
>seems to be bits, so I'm multiplying the data * 8.
>
>With this in mind, what should I set my maximum as?  Is it as simple as
>100 * 1024 * 1024 (104857600) or am I missing something that'll bite me
>in the behind later?
>
>Thanks, and happy new year.
>
>-Dan Mahoney
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