[rrd-users] Newcomer's RRD design dillemmas

[Simon Hobson]

Ryan Kubica wrote:
>'Exact values for an interval' and 'exact value at a time' are 
>different things.
>To store the exact value you want with no averaging just store it on 
>the step-size interval boundary, rrdtool won't average those.  ie: 
>binary data is no problem 0/1 if stored on the interval.

However, if the OP wants to keep that data for min 5 months, at 1 
minute resolution, then that's a lot of samples. If, as is hinted, 
changes are infrequent, then that's a very inefficient way of storing 
them - ie there are other tools that would be more appropriate for 
that.

RRD will certainly store his other (scalar) data though.

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