[rrd-users] minimum "step" value of RRD?

[Rick Jones]

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 15:34 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 01:27 +0300, Martin T wrote:
> > What is the minimum "step" value for RRD? The reason I'm asking is
> > that I would like to make an availability graph for one host and I
> > would like to check this host at least after every 10s.
> 
> One second is the minimum step value. If there is any "jitter" in when
> you will be adding to the RRD when using a one second step, you should
> either use the "N" timestamp format, or seconds.mmm  milliseconds
> format, or you run the risk of rrd_update complaining that you are
> trying to update the RRD more often than once a second.

Although, if I'm recalling the emails correctly (they should be in the
archive) the rrdcached doesn't grok that millisecond time format until
release 1.4.6 ships (or one goes with bits from the repo).

rick

> 
> rick jones
> just a noob who has wandered into that part of the woods.
> 
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