[Orca-users] Re: Orcallator CPU Questions

[Blair Zajac]

Sean O'Neill wrote:
> 
> At 05:29 PM 8/16/2002 -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
> >Sean O'Neill wrote:
> > > Your not missing much.  Its a 5 Minute "AVERAGE".  Short large spikes
> > > within the probe period are flatten out.  You can change the data
> > > collection interval in orcallator.se to anything you want.  I have mine set
> > > to 60 seconds.  Each data element in the hourly and daily graphs will still
> > > be a "5 minute average" though - this is an RRD limitation not a limitation
> > > of orcallator.se.  RRD takes these 1 minute interval date elements and
> > > "computes" them into the RRD files whose lowest data interval is 5 minutes.
> >
> >You can change your orcallator.cfg `interval', backup and delete your
> >RRD files and then you should get plots with 1 minute data.  If not, then
> >lib/Orca/Constants.pm would have to be edited.  Let me know.
> 
> I'm pretty sure Contstants.pm has to be edited.
> 
> I'm looking at that now.  Blair, do you know why Yearly is set to 1098 rows
> instead of 1095 ?
> 
> 3 * 365 = 1095

I probably set that for leap years.  I also like to have a little
additional data so one time period can overlap the previous one.

Best,
Blair

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