Comment 12 for bug 1061817

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Harri Hämäläinen (hhamalai) wrote :

The reason is that semantics of Telemetry's "Cumulative counter" promise an increassing sequence of metered values, but there's no implementation to keep that promise when the actual data source resets the metered value to zero. E.g. libvirt will reset the CPU seconds to zero when the machine reboots. Telemetry really should provide this implementation as breaking this promise of cumulative counters will result obscure errors in other applications using the data provided by Telemetry.