Re: odd iostat graph

> What's the scale on the bottom there?  The label says "by week" but the way
> your message is written makes me think it's actually a much smaller time
> frame.  If those valleys are around around five minutes apart, those are the
> checkpoints finishing; the shape of the graph is right for it to be those.

No, that's about 6 days of stats.
The numbers 04, 05, 06 are Sept 04, 05, 06 ...

This is the part I found oddest - that this takes place over such a
huge timeframe!

Munin takes a snapshot every 5 minutes, and this graph shows it
averaged over that timeframe.

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