[rrd-users] [rrd] Can't I turn off data smoothing for GAUGE?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 07:35:47AM +0200, Tobi Oetiker wrote:
> Yesterday Philip Peake wrote:
> 
> > What I found most perplexing was that Tobi seemed to have had the (IMHO
> > :-) ) right idea to begin with.
> 
> I think I have spent enough time trying to explain how rrdtool
> works this time around.
> 
> * I have also stated how to fake the time of your data accquisition
>   to prevent rrdtool from re-sampling ...

This may become an option in cacti at some point, it just isn't for now.

For people using rrdtool directly, faking the time indeed takes care of the
problem.

Thanks for your answers,
Marc
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