[rrd-users] RRA:AVERAGE - How does RRDtool know which RRA to use?

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Thu Aug 19 08:56:57 CEST 2010


tinsfci wrote:

>But what you say is that if I use correct start/end times when creating the
>graphs, RRDtool sorts things out and uses the RRA best suited for each
>graph?

Yes, but as someone else has pointed out, you can also specify it as 
a command line argument to rrdtool graph. I'd forgotten that, I don't 
know if it's something that got added since I started with rrdtool, 
or if I'd just forgotten about it.

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