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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=teal face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>I have
no idea, but that sure is pretty cool-looking! <grin><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Jim Smith<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color:teal;font-weight:bold'>, <st1:State w:st="on">AR</st1:State></span></font></b></st1:place><b><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> Jon Boede [mailto:jon@shadowsoft.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 01, 2008
12:25 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [hobbit] interesting
patterns in graphs</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#000099" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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?<br>
<br>
<img width=673 height=213 id="_x0000_i1025"
src="cid:image001.gif@01C923C3.A99578F0"><br>
<br>
If the image doesn't come through as an attachment, I've put it up on <a
href="http://www.email.net/jon/hobbitping.png">http://www.email.net/jon/hobbitping.png</a><br>
<br>
Curiously,<br>
Jon</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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