[rrd-users] values being averaged.

[Richard.W.Brown at nokia.com]

Thanks for the reply,

I had already read through the documentation, man pages and tutorials
before posting. I had also spent some time with just trial and error
where I wanted to clarify some of the examples as see what happened if.
So your assumption was wrong :-)

My biggest assumption was that the documentation was correct, this seems
to be incorrect, as the tutorial rrd_beginners
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/tut/rrd-beginners.en.html states quiet
clearly:
"GAUGE does not save the rate of change. It saves the actual value
itself. There are no divisions or calculations."

And the man page rrdcreate
http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdcreate.en.html states:
"The data is also processed with the consolidation function (CF) of the
archive. There are several consolidation functions that consolidate
primary data points via an aggregate function: AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, LAST."

And you say the above is not correct.

It seems this tool will not do what I expected it to, and from your
abrupt reply I do not expect to get a useful answer.  Also since you did
not comment on the incorrect answer to he other post with a similar
query, I will look elsewhere.

regards
Richard.


-----Original Message-----
From: rrd-users-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch
[mailto:rrd-users-bounces at lists.oetiker.ch] On Behalf Of ext Alex van
den Bogaerdt
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:04 PM
To: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [rrd-users] values being averaged.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:27:05PM +0200, Richard.W.Brown at nokia.com
wrote:

> The problem is that the value displayed on the graphs for number of
> clients (as in Client server) shows 0.6 of a client! Well, since we
all
> know client connections can only be integer values this is obviously
> wrong.

It is impossible to have 2.3 kids, yet per household we do.

> So, I'm creating the rrd as a GAUGE so it should store the real number
> not the rate between it

You are operating on assumptions, and these are wrong.

Please read the tutorials, the documentation and visit my site.
-- 
Alex van den Bogaerdt
http://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/

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