[rrd-users] How rrdtool will work if there are two or more sample points in one time step

[David Copperfield]

Thanks a lot. All those answers are very helpful.

--David



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 From: Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>
To: rrd-users at lists.oetiker.ch 
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: [rrd-users] How rrdtool will work if there are two or more sample points in one time step
 
David Copperfield wrote:
> I am new to wonderful RRD world, and got confused by the question: 
> Let's say my rrd file's time step is set 300 seconds, but my sample script sends data every 60 seconds and update the rrd file 5 times (300/60) in each 60 seconds interval. What the final data will show up in the rrd file?

The data you enter is accumulated and normalised.
There is a very good tutorial athttp://www.vandenbogaerdt.nl/rrdtool/
See "Rates, normalizing and consolidating"

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