[Orca-users] Re: Disk run % graphs don't seem right...

[Blair Zajac]

If you change the %lf format than all the plots will be effected, not
just the disk ones.

Blair


Greg Winn wrote:

> From: "Greg Winn" <winngre at cscoe.ac.com>
>
> The scaling makes perfect sense to me, thank you -- although it would be
> nice to set the number of significant digits I am interested in so that the
> numbers do not look so long -- I am more worried about genuinely large
> numbers than genuinely small ones!  I guess I can do that by playing with
> the GPRINT statement (%lf) to specify field width etc?
>
> Thanks,
> -Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair at akamai.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 3:06 PM
> To: orca-help at onelist.com
> Cc: winngre at cscoe.ac.com
> Subject: Re: [orca-help] Disk run % graphs don't seem right...
>
> From: Blair Zajac <blair at akamai.com>
>
> The numbers with a 'u' or 'm' after them mean to scale the
> number by 1e-6 and 1e-3 respectively, so the numbers are
> actually very small.  They are still a percentage, so 1m is
> 0.001*100% =1e-5.
>
> Is this consistent with the data you would expect?
>
> Blair
>
> Greg Winn wrote:
>
> > From: "Greg Winn" <winngre at cscoe.ac.com>
> >
> > Thanks for the reply Paul, the patch worked fine - I can now see all of my
> > metadevices and disks.  The other problem still remains: The legend values
> > (current, average, min, max) on some of my systems show percent values (in
> > that they are numbers less than 100), and on others they seem
> misrepresented
> > (perhaps recast? sometimes they have a 'u' or 'm' after the number) and
> are
> > set wildly higher than a percentage.  As the graphed data is correct, and
> > the data in the RRD is correct, it seems that RRDtool is producing bad
> > numbers for the legend on certain graphs -or- part of the
> > _update_graph_options code is misbehaving.  This is my first
> implementation
> > of anything that uses RRDtool, so it could be something I don't understand
> > yet.
> >
> > I have obtained and compiled the most recent RRDtool (1.0.13) and
> confirmed
> > that the new version's RRDs package and libraries are being used.  I built
> > RRDtool using GCC 2.951, but I am considering using a different compiler
> to
> > see if that makes a difference.  Has anyone else seen this kind of
> behavior?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > -Greg
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Haldane [mailto:Paul.Haldane at newcastle.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 4:06 AM
> > To: orca-help at onelist.com
> > Cc: Greg Winn
> > Subject: Re: [orca-help] Disk run % graphs don't seem right...
> >
> > From: Paul Haldane <Paul.Haldane at newcastle.ac.uk>
> >
> > > Orca-0.25 (out of the box configuration file), Orcallator-1.20.se,
> > > rrdtool-1.0.10:
> > ...
> > > c0t0d0's!).  The rrds are all named for the appropriate disk targets for
> > the
> > > host, so I'm not sure where this is coming from.  The platform is a Sun
> > > E450, all internal drives (12 + cdrom), Solaris 2.6, using Disksuite
> 4.2.
> >
> > I thought we'd fixed the problem with DiskSuite in the latest
> > version of orca.  Maybe it hasn't arrived in the released version yet -
> > see my message at
> >
> > http://www.onelist.com/omessages/orca-developers?archive=16
> >
> > for a patch.
> >
> > Paul
> > --
> > Paul Haldane
> > Computing Service
> > University of Newcastle
> >
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