[rrd-users] rddtool clarification

[Emily Chouinard]

Thanks, that wedsite cleared things up very well. I have another, kind 
of off topic question. I am formating my graph and I've made legends but 
I need to input a new line command and \n isn't working, it actually 
gives me a box character, looks like [], and no new line. Here are my 
commands 'GPRINT:avgN:"Avg %6.2lf%%\n"', is there another way to create 
a new line?

Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:57:42AM -0400, Emily Chouinard wrote:
>   
>> I've been working with rrdtool for awhile now, I've read over the 
>> tutorials, the documentation and the list-serve archive and I still have 
>> a few questions I can't seem to answer myself so if anyone can offer a 
>> suitable answer I would really appreciate it.
>>
>> One of the concerns of my supervisor deals with timestamped data: if I 
>> create an rrd with --step 10 and heartbeat 60, it takes atleast 6 PDPs 
>> and averages them into 1 CDP
>>     
>
> No. In your case, a PDP is 10 seconds. Nothing can be said about CDPs
> as no information is present (other than that each CDP will be a whole
> multiple of 10 seconds).
>
> Also see my site, normalization and consolidation.
>
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