Stripping a spike from rrdtool when removespike.pl doesn't find any

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Published on 2010-06-26T21:47:37Z Indexed on 2011/01/16 3:55 UTC
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I know when rrdtool graphs (using rrdtool 1.4) network traffic and the host is restarted a spike is a pretty normal thing to see. In the past I've just run that removespike.pl script that is hosted by the author and it strips the spike and I'm good to go.

The last few times I've rebooted removespike.pl finds no spikes, but it's obvious that there are spikes. So my question is, how can I easily remove these spikes and get my graphs usable again? Right now it's so skewed it's meaningless.

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