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diff --git a/doc/rrd-beginners.1 b/doc/rrd-beginners.1
index d36a4ce19904331530ecda6a915a4f87bd342756..415ee113990cf8e9c6870048baf1616b941a0a84 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rrd-beginners.1
+++ b/doc/rrd-beginners.1
-.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.1801 (Pod::Simple 3.05)
+.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.25 (Pod::Simple 3.16)
.\"
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.IX Title "RRD-BEGINNERS 1"
-.TH RRD-BEGINNERS 1 "2008-03-15" "1.3.8" "rrdtool"
+.TH RRD-BEGINNERS 1 "2013-05-23" "1.4.8" "rrdtool"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ every step interval, a new value of \s-1DS\s0 is supplied to update the database
This value is also called Primary Data Point \fB(\s-1PDP\s0)\fR. In our example
mentioned above, a new \s-1PDP\s0 is generated every 300 seconds.
.PP
-Note, that if you do \s-1NOT\s0 supply new datapoints exactly every 300 seconds,
+Note, that if you do \s-1NOT\s0 supply new data points exactly every 300 seconds,
this is not a problem, RRDtool will interpolate the data accordingly.
.PP
\&\fB\s-1DST\s0\fR (Data Source Type) defines the type of the \s-1DS\s0. It can be
the previous value is greater than 0). Traffic counters on a router
are an ideal candidate for using \s-1COUNTER\s0 as \s-1DST\s0. \s-1DERIVE\s0 is the same as
\&\s-1COUNTER\s0, but it allows negative values as well. If you want to see the
-rate of \fIchange\fR in free diskspace on your server, then you might
+rate of \fIchange\fR in free disk space on your server, then you might
want to use the \s-1DERIVE\s0 data type. \s-1ABSOLUTE\s0 also saves the rate of
change, but it assumes that the previous value is set to 0. The
difference between the current and the previous value is always equal
\& # calculate the average of the array
\& my $tot_mem_ave = $tot_mem_sum/($count);
\& # create the graph
-\& RRDs::graph ("/images/mem_$count.png", \e
-\& "\-\-title= Memory Usage", \e
-\& "\-\-vertical\-label=Memory Consumption (MB)", \e
-\& "\-\-start=$start_time", \e
-\& "\-\-end=$end_time", \e
-\& "\-\-color=BACK#CCCCCC", \e
-\& "\-\-color=CANVAS#CCFFFF", \e
-\& "\-\-color=SHADEB#9999CC", \e
-\& "\-\-height=125", \e
-\& "\-\-upper\-limit=656", \e
-\& "\-\-lower\-limit=0", \e
-\& "\-\-rigid", \e
-\& "\-\-base=1024", \e
-\& "DEF:tot_mem=target.rrd:mem:AVERAGE", \e
-\& "CDEF:tot_mem_cor=tot_mem,0,671744,LIMIT,UN,0,tot_mem,IF,1024,/",\e
-\& "CDEF:machine_mem=tot_mem,656,+,tot_mem,\-",\e
-\& "COMMENT:Memory Consumption between $start_time",\e
-\& "COMMENT: and $end_time ",\e
-\& "HRULE:656#000000:Maximum Available Memory \- 656 MB",\e
-\& "AREA:machine_mem#CCFFFF:Memory Unused", \e
+\& RRDs::graph ("/images/mem_$count.png",
+\& "\-\-title= Memory Usage",
+\& "\-\-vertical\-label=Memory Consumption (MB)",
+\& "\-\-start=$start_time",
+\& "\-\-end=$end_time",
+\& "\-\-color=BACK#CCCCCC",
+\& "\-\-color=CANVAS#CCFFFF",
+\& "\-\-color=SHADEB#9999CC",
+\& "\-\-height=125",
+\& "\-\-upper\-limit=656",
+\& "\-\-lower\-limit=0",
+\& "\-\-rigid",
+\& "\-\-base=1024",
+\& "DEF:tot_mem=target.rrd:mem:AVERAGE",
+\& "CDEF:tot_mem_cor=tot_mem,0,671744,LIMIT,UN,0,tot_mem,IF,1024,/",
+\& "CDEF:machine_mem=tot_mem,656,+,tot_mem,\-",
+\& "COMMENT:Memory Consumption between $start_time",
+\& "COMMENT: and $end_time ",
+\& "HRULE:656#000000:Maximum Available Memory \- 656 MB",
+\& "AREA:machine_mem#CCFFFF:Memory Unused",
\& "AREA:tot_mem_cor#6699CC:Total memory consumed in MB");
\& my $err=RRDs::error;
\& if ($err) {print "problem generating the graph: $err\en";}