MRTG graphics is not saved

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:36 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 December 2005 04:11 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I've just setup mrtg using the tutorial from
> > http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/mrtg.htm
> >
> > It runs OK. The graphics is generated. But, when I restarted the PC, all
> > previous MRTG graphics is gone.
> >
> > Have any clue what is going wrong?
> > Thank you,
> 
> Oh man!
> It turns out that the graphics is not gone, but rather, the scale becomes so 
> small because there was an outburst of traffic of 100MB at eth0. Which 
> doesn't make sense because eth0 is my public interface connected to a wlan 
> with an allocated bandwidth of only 128kbps!
> 
> Very strange!
> 
> Anyway, do you know how to fix the graphic other than erasing the data?
> Thank you,
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This may happen if MRTG has been stopped for a while.  It appears that
MRTG thinks there is a burst of traffic in a short time.  The burst will
move off of the daily graph in 48 hours and you will be back to normal.
IIRC the burst will be averaged down in the other graphs.

Bob...