interesting patterns in graphs

Jon Boede wrote:

Our ping times occasionally turn up graphs like the attached... It seems to me that this is an artifact of how rrd averages multiple into time "buckets" but I am not quite sure of that... anybody have an opinion as to what causes it?


If the image doesn't come through as an attachment, I've put it up on http://www.email.net/jon/hobbitping.png

Curiously,
Jon

I'm seeing similar graphs at my sites.


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Bill Arlofski
Reverse Polarity, LLC