[c-nsp] 95th percentile billing software

[Chris Cappuccio]

Chris Adams [cmadams at hiwaay.net] wrote:
> That's not a function of RRD, that's a function of how RRD is
> configured.  For example, Cricket uses default RRDs that only keep 5
> minute snapshots for a couple of days, but it is easy to configure it to
> keep them longer (which of course makes them larger).  This can be done
> on a per-targetType basis (so you could build a 95th percentile target
> type and set it to keep 5 minute data for 30 or 60 days).
> 

Yes, but what's the point of using an RRD based grapher if you aren't going to take advantage of RRD?  You have to work around RRD just to keep the data in a form that you can use for legal purposes.  This was the primary design consideration of RTG, anyways.