Hi, (This is a follow-up to Debian [bug543631].)
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:00:22AM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote: > Floating point values are supported with GAUGE. This suprising > behavior is not clearly documented, as far as I can tell. I don't > think there are architectural reasons for this behavior. [side note: "this surprising behavior" refers to the subject of the E-mail, i.e. "rrdupdate does not support floating point values with DERIVE, COUNTER" ;-)] I'm not entirely sure about any reasons for that either. COUNTER and DERIVE values are stored as a rate (i.e., a double) as well anyway. To be able to calculate the rate, the last value is stored as well. This is done using a string, though, so it does not impose any limitations either. With this E-mail, I'm forwarding the issue upstream, hoping for an explanation (or request for patches ;-)). Cheers, Sebastian [bug543631] http://bugs.debian.org/543631 -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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