Re: [hobbit] strange graph behavior - random machines & graphs

["Josh Luthman" <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

This is completely beyond my knowledge, but the first place I would look at
is any hardware problems, any recent changes (obviously =) and the
similarities between those two Hobbit servers issues.

On 11/29/07, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hmm, I just noticed that two completely separate Hobbit servers are having
> the exact same problem.  Again, there is no pattern to which graphs are
> having this problem, and which ones are not.  I even upgraded to the latest
> version of rrdtool (from 1.2.23 to 1.2.26) and that didn't seem to help.
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 5:39 PM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Actually, it looks like this is affecting more hosts than I originally
> > thought.
> >
> >
> > On Nov 28, 2007 10:08 AM, Gary Baluha < gumby3203 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have recently noticed a strange thing happening with some of the rrd
> > > graphs generated by Hobbit.  When you look at the graph, it looks as though
> > > the rrd data is one one format (gauge), but the graph is generating it in a
> > > different format (derive).  I can't seem to find any pattern to the hosts or
> > > tests that are exhibiting this strange behavior, and it is only happening on
> > > a handful of graphs.  I have attached a picture of one of these graphs,
> > > since I'm not really sure how to describe it.  Note the huge numbers
> > > displayed on the curr/min/avg/max line.
> > >
> > > Any idea what's going on here?  When I dump the RRD file manually,
> > > everything looks okay.  I'm running Hobbit 4.2.0 with the 2007-02-09
> > > allinone patch (I believe the latest).  This has only happened in the past
> > > few weeks, though when exactly it started, I don't know.  Any ideas?
> > >
> >
> >
>


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