Re: Strange problem with net builtin
Anders Bolager <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm |
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| Organization | Adstate AS |
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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 ______________________________________________ Gkrellm mailing list [email protected] Read archives-join-leave-set RSS feed: http://archive.lists.netservicesgroup.com