Re: help understand this code.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Ajay Chenampara
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 15:48
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [cricket-users] help understand this code.
> 
> $data = (RRDs::fetch($rrd, 'AVERAGE', '-s', parsedate('last 
> month')))[3];
> 
> This is from the cricket-95.pl script. I know that rrd fetch 
> returns pointers to pointers or something... but im really 
> interested to know what AVERAGE here means - is it the 
> average of the RRD database array?
> My rrd file is less than a month old and so i wonder if 
> that's the reason i am getting the 95th %lile reading(around 
> 3Mbps) way lower than the average interface usage reading 
> (around 60 Mbps)

Without actually read the code, the average seems to be an argument to
the "rrdtool fetch" command. Have a look at the rrdfetch man page. Have
a try with a week instead of a month to see if that average better
resembles reality.

// nick

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