[rrd-users] How to get MAX/MIN of non-rates?

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <37C388565C9E4EC88E23BAA2021C1435 at DESK>,
Alex van den Bogaerdt <alex at vandenbogaerdt.nl> wrote:
> > Now, because the value was 5 for a fifth of the period, the average value
> > stored is 1, which is fine. However, the MAX table also has a value 1 
> > stored,
> > instead of the value 5 that I expected.
> >
> > It appears the CF for MAX doesn't apply to values within a period, but 
> > only
> > when periods are consolidated into longer periods.
> 
> > I write values with their timestamps as and when they change, and had 
> > expected
> > RRD to keep the highest value written within the period as the stored MAX
> > value for the period.
> 
> You could set step equal to 1 (i.e. one second) and then consolidate 300 of 
> those steps in your first RRA, the one with the lowest number of seconds per 
> bucket.
> 
> In other words: instead of step==300 and steps_per_CDP==1, you set step==1 
> and steps_per_CDP==300.
> 
> Please try and get back.

Interesting! I hadn't thought of that. It sounds promising - thanks!

I'll let you know how I get on - although it won't be until next week.

Cheers
Tony
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