[Orca-users] Re: orca not graphing weekly properly

[Sean O'Neill]

At 02:19 PM 7/29/2002 -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
> >
> > What is the effect of getting the wrong interval number ?
>
>If you're measurements occur in a time period longer than the Orca/RRD
>`interval', then you'll end up with blank period in the RRD files and
>you're plots will have holes in them.  If your time period between
>measurements is shorter than `interval', then I believe RRD will
>perform some averaging, min, or max on the values.  You'd have to
>look at RRD's manual pages to specifically what happens here.
>
>By default, the Solaris orcallator.se takes care to measure on
>integral multiples of `interval' to avoid these problems.

I collect the data at 1 minute intervals.  This allows me to see higher 
resolution data then the graphs provide.  The graphs seem to be "averaged" 
correctly.  Not sure exactly what it does for gauge type data.


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Sean O'Neill