heavywater/chef-graphite — comment on commit 98bc7f3e5dfbd8756bdefb7717d1be6a1b5ecee1
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By spazm:

What does the new retention represent? Why the switch?

old:

60:565920 => minute data for 393 days.

new:

60:100800,900:6300
60:100800 => 60 seconds per data point for 100800 data points => 1 minute data for 70 days.
900:6300 => 15 minutes per data point for 6300 data points => 15 minute data for 65.6 days.