Re: Strange problem with net builtin

Anders Bolager <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
Organization Adstate AS
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:53:54 +0200
Stefan Gehn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Am 07.10.2008 um 13:31 schrieb Anders Bolager:
> > Gkrellm seems to run fine with one exception. The builtin
> > monitor for eth0, instead of displaying an even graph of net traffic,
> > alternates between what appear to be twice the real kbytes/sec and 0
> > every other second. Just compiled version 2.3.2 directly from the
> > sources that was posted here a few days ago, and the behaviour has not
> > changed.
> 
> This behaviour might be correct if the network traffic counters in / 
> proc only update every second (or maybe only every other second) while  
> gkrellm is polling them more than once per second. I'm experiencing  
> something similar with my linux based server on my internal nic as  
> well. The overall data transmitted is counted correctly for me so I  
> think it's just a matter of when gkrellm updates its display and when  
> the kernel updates its /proc files.

Hmm. That sounds reasonable. Are there ways to either get the
kernel/driver to report more often, or gkrellm to poll every other
second instead?

> 
> Bye,
> Stefan aka mETz


-- 
Hilsen
Anders Bolager
Systemansvarlig, Adstate AS



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