[rrd-users] RRD::update failing on first update every time?

[Jo Rhett]

On Sep 15, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> Assuming you meant RRDs::last(), because it returns an irrelevant number.  Try it.  You'll find yourself missing every other few updates because ::last() returns the last update time of the file, and not the last timestamp value stored in the file.


Hm.  Some testing confirms that this problem is no longer occurring.   I wrote the getLatestTimestamp routine about 8 years ago due to problems with last() at the time, and had always re-used it since then.  I should have re-tested this before sending the above message -- my bad.

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