[rrd-users] Not a simple unsigned integer

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Paul,

Today Paul Watson wrote:

> Moved back to version 1.3.8 and the problem went away

in all likelihood this does remove the symptom, not the cause ...
rrdtool before 1.4 was a bit to relaxed in complaining about bad input.

have a look at what you are trying to put into rrdtool ...

cheers
tobi

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> Cheers
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> Paul
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> From: Ryan Kubica [mailto:kubicaryan at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 11:28 PM
> To: paul at oninit.com; rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: Re: [rrd-users] Not a simple unsigned integer
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> Your code might be intermittently inserting floats for COUNTER, DERIVE or
> ABSOLUTE datasource types.  Only integers are permitted on those datasource
> types.
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> From: Paul Watson <paul at oninit.com>
> To: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 2:14 PM
> Subject: [rrd-users] Not a simple unsigned integer
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> I've just upgraded from 1.3.8 to 1.4.7 - nothing else has changed and now
> I'm getting 'Not a simple unsigned integer' on around 2% of my updates on
> the rrd files, I have around 10K rrd files.  All are defined the same and
> all take similar data input
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> I'm stuck as to why - anyone any ideas ?
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> Cheers
> Paul
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> Paul Watson
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