Imported upstream version 1.4.2.

[pkg-rrdtool.git] / doc / rrd-beginners.txt

diff --git a/doc/rrd-beginners.txt b/doc/rrd-beginners.txt
index 474912a99bfd1c14366262532a59bbc33fcebdd8..bd44e8ffcf8f4cf47dab99e6ab6e2875639d9350 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rrd-beginners.txt
+++ b/doc/rrd-beginners.txt
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
        database, there are distinct differences between RRDtool databases and
        other databases as listed below:
 
-       ·   RRDtool stores data; that makes it a back-end tool. The RRDtool
+       ·   RRDtool stores data; that makes it a back-end tool. The RRDtool
            command set allows the creation of graphs; that makes it a front-
            end tool as well. Other databases just store data and can not
            create graphs.
 
-       ·   In case of linear databases, new data gets appended at the bottom
+       ·   In case of linear databases, new data gets appended at the bottom
            of the database table. Thus its size keeps on increasing, whereas
            the size of an RRDtool database is determined at creation time.
            Imagine an RRDtool database as the perimeter of a circle. Data is
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
            RRDtool database always remains constant. The name "Round Robin"
            stems from this behavior.
 
-       ·   Other databases store the values as supplied. RRDtool can be
+       ·   Other databases store the values as supplied. RRDtool can be
            configured to calculate the rate of change from the previous to the
            current value and store this information instead.
 
-       ·   Other databases get updated when values are supplied. The RRDtool
+       ·   Other databases get updated when values are supplied. The RRDtool
            database is structured in such a way that it needs data at
            predefined time intervals. If it does not get a new value during
            the interval, it stores an UNKNOWN value for that interval. So,
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
        (\b(P\bPD\bDP\bP)\b). In our example mentioned above, a new PDP is generated every 300
        seconds.
 
-       Note, that if you do NOT supply new datapoints exactly every 300
+       Note, that if you do NOT supply new data points exactly every 300
        seconds, this is not a problem, RRDtool will interpolate the data
        accordingly.
 
@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
        value is greater than 0). Traffic counters on a router are an ideal
        candidate for using COUNTER as DST. DERIVE is the same as COUNTER, but
        it allows negative values as well. If you want to see the rate of
-       _\bc_\bh_\ba_\bn_\bg_\be in free diskspace on your server, then you might want to use the
-       DERIVE data type. ABSOLUTE also saves the rate of change, but it
+       _\bc_\bh_\ba_\bn_\bg_\be in free disk space on your server, then you might want to use
+       the DERIVE data type. ABSOLUTE 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 to the current value.
        Thus it just stores the current value divided by the step interval (300
@@ -315,4 +315,4 @@ A\bAU\bUT\bTH\bHO\bOR\bR
 
 
 
-1.3.999                           2009-09-24                  RRD-BEGINNERS(1)
+1.4.2                             2009-10-14                  RRD-BEGINNERS(1)