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[Nicholas Leskiw <nleskiw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Changing storage-schemas.conf will not change the retentions on existing .wsp files. 

It appears that you have about one week. (60 * 9432 = 565,920 seconds ~= 6.5 days) of data in the file.  How long has the data been collecting?  

-Nick

On Jun 7, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Royce King <question160576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Question #160576 on Graphite changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/160576
> 
>    Status: Answered => Open
> 
> Royce King is still having a problem:
> When I run the whisper-info.py I get the following:
> 
> whisper-info.py count.wsp
> maxRetention: 565920
> xFilesFactor: 0.5
> fileSize: 113212
> 
> Archive 0
> retention: 565920
> secondsPerPoint: 60
> points: 9432
> size: 113184
> offset: 28
> 
> and my storage-schemas.conf contains this:
> [everything_1min_13months]
> priority = 100
> pattern = .*
> retentions = 60:565920
> 
> 
> Am I wrong by understanding this?  Doesn't this mean that data will be
> retained for every minute for 13 months?
> 
> -Royce
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Nicholas Leskiw <
> question160576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Your question #160576 on Graphite changed:
>> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/160576
>> 
>>    Status: Open => Answered
>> 
>> Nicholas Leskiw proposed the following answer:
>> Check the actual retention rate of the .wsp file.
>> Go to /opt/graphite/storage/whisper/, and you'll see the same hierarchy as
>> in the UI.  Find the .wsp file and run whisper-info.py name-of-metric.wsp
>> 
>> Look for secondsPerPoint and Points.
>> 
>> If you multiply those two numbers, is it around 600,000? If so your
>> retention rate is set to one week.  You can change the retention rate of
>> an existing wsp file with whisper-resize.py Run it with --help for more
>> info.
>> 
>> If you find the retention rate is incorrect, you can set retention rates
>> for new metrics in /opt/graphite/conf/storage-schemas.conf
>> 
>> If this doesn't solve the issue, please post your storage-schemas.conf
>> and the output of whisper-info.py
>> 
>> -Nick
>> 
>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Royce King
>> <question160576@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> New question #160576 on Graphite:
>>> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/160576
>>> 
>>> I am trying to view data with graphite for last month and can only seem
>> to be able to view data for the last week.  from=-3weeks doesn't work, nor
>> does &from=00%3A00_20110531&until=14%3A00_20110531.
>>> 
>>> Has anybody else had this problem?  Is there some kind of configuration
>> that I am missing?
>>> 
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