non-whole numbers on graph

[jofficer]

I know this has been discussed before and I thought I had bookmarked a couple of the threads discussing this, but I cannot seem to find it now.

I've written a couple of custom scripts that report values 'right now'. At any rate, the issue is that the graphs end up reporting 3.5 or 2.7 or 1.6 or various decimal point numbers.

The scripts (for example) report mail queue, and number of items in a queue for internal processing (various custom data) but it's all whole numbers.

Sometimes these numbers report 0, sometime 1, sometimes 50, etc... but never decimal values.

Appreciate any response, even if it's just a pointer to another thread.

Thanks,
joey

[gandalf]

This is a basic rrdtool question (I suppose it's top of the FAQ). RRDTool ALWAYS performs normalization of data, even for GAUGE. That is, it re-calculates ALL updates made off exact interval limits (e.g. when updating after 302 seconds instead of 300 secons exactly). No way to get rid of it
Reinhard