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rounding bug? Re: [hobbit] Trending graphs and their meaning on hobbit wiki

list Gildas le Nadan
Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:24:29 +0100
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T.J. Yang wrote:
I am trying to put up a place for hobbit trending graphs to be displayed and analyzed for its meaning.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Administration_Guide#Trending_graphs_interpretations 

Please post your trending graph that shows problems and it interpretation.

in my ping graph, I don't unstand why the line change some much.

T.J. Yang
Hi,

I also have a lot on "triangle shape" graphs, especially on machines that are quite idle and with a very low latency.

I heavily suspect that those are caused by rounding errors when the values are small.

You can see the problem on those two examples (one has a "baseline", the other a "ceiling"):

http://lenadan.gildas.free.fr/hobbit/tcp_example1.png
http://lenadan.gildas.free.fr/hobbit/tcp_example2.png

Cheers,
Gildas