[rrd-users] rrdtool

[Alejandro Galue]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

> I understand that the first column is time since Jan 01,1970 and the
> second column is the value. When i copy 1.8796133337e+09 in excel
> sheet, I get weird values, Actually it should be some readable
> interger value about memory usage on a particular host.

RRD values are expressed on scientific notation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation).

Assuming that the unit of the measurement is bytes, because you are talking about memory usage,

1.8796133337e+09 bytes = 1.8796 GBytes (assuming 1GB = 1,000,000,000.00 B)

Alejandro.