RE: Aberrant behaviour -- any experience?

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Subject: RE: Aberrant behaviour -- any experience?
From: Jake Brutlag (jakeb@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 10:54:25 CDT

> as you may see, after one week it's too far from convergence, 
> it shows failures for about 25% of the day. 
> From your or someone's experience, how soon is it expected 
> to converge and show more or less adequate data?

The algorithm can only "converge" to the degree that the underlying data
is consistent. But you can probably get some better results by tuning
the algorithm. I would suggest (1) increasing the intercept adaption
(alpha), seasonal adaptation (gamma), and/or seasonal deviation
(gamma-deviation) parameter, try 0.2 or 0.25; this will help the
algorithm adjust to the steep inclines you see Sat/Sun/Mon and/or (2)
changing the failures threshold/window length to reduce the number of
failures in general (although we use the default). You can use the
rrdtool tune command to change these on existing files. After making the
changes, you can force reinitialization to occur by using the
aberrant-reset option.

Jake

Jake Brutlag
Network Analyst
TV Services -- Network Operations
Microsoft MSN 

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