Let us take this in simple bite-size chunks: • First, a piratical point, most Laptop and PC screens are 1024x x768 pixels. The point is that no matter how many data points you have you can not even see a maximum of about 800 data points. This is why I recommend about 300 to 400 data captures with nmon to get good looking graphs. • Second, one second stats for a day give you (60 x 60 x 24) 86400 data points! So OK let us try one minute stats then we have 1440 data points, which is still to many. So we need to move to 5 minutes captures and we get to a sensible 288 data points and a good looking graph. • Third, we then collect data for a month 288 x 31 = 8928 data points – oh dear far to may data points again!! so now we have to drop down to once an hour data capture (24 x 31) and we hav 741 data points which is only just possible – we had better start thinking about the purchase of a bigger screen. • If you then want to compare months or have a yearly report … well you get the idea by