[CentOS] rrd compilation on Centos

Thu Oct 13 19:56:37 UTC 2005
Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:49, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 08:20, James Bond wrote:
> 
> > i am trying to compile the latest version of orca source code on CentOS 4.0 
> > system running amd64 bit processor. I am getting the following error:
> 
> I can't help with that problem but speaking of rrd and 64-bits....
> I'm trying to run cacti to graph the interface traffic of some
> Centos 3.5 x86_64 servers and it looks like there is a math error
> in the values returned by snmp. After a reboot they look right for a
> while but after a while (perhaps 2gigs total traffic...) they go
> crazy.

Been awhile since I did anything with rrd or mrtg but could it be that
you have selected the wrong type for the value being represented?  I
seem to recall a type that allowed for values to be reset to zero
(counter rolls over).  You may have a type set that is looking for
increasing values only.  From your brief description it sounds like the
counters may be rolling over and cacti is having trouble figuring this
out.  You need to have a data type that is cumulative so when/if the
counter roles over to zero the graphs will continue to show the expected
info.
 

Change the data type used to the correct type and it should work.