[rrd-users] Re: how the average is calculated?

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:03:49AM -0200, Maicon Stihler wrote:

> "DEF:bread=$data:diskr:AVERAGE ",
> "CDEF:read=bread,4096,* ",
> AREA:read#${color1}:'Blks Read'
> GPRINT:read:LAST:'  Atual\\:%8.2lf %s' ",
> "GPRINT:read:AVERAGE:' Média\\:%8.2lf %s'
> GPRINT:read:MAX:' Máximo\\:%8.2lf %s\\n' ",

> The values that appear on GPRINT:write:AVERAGE, GPRINT:write:LAST and
> GPRINT:WRITE:MAX are actually what?

You have set it up. You know this.

> Im archiving a simple counter, so is it the given counter by seconds?

No. You are archiving a rate.  You are using a counter to get that rate.

You are displaying the rate multiplied by 4096.  If you transfered
100 blocks on average, you transfered 409600 bytes on average.

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Alex van den Bogaerdt
http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/

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