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On 25 July 2003 03:22, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <200307250156.47108.fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net> you wrote: > > On the other hand, I cannot imagine that noone would have thought of it. What > > is the reason for this? Is there another interface that I should use instead > > of /proc/net/dev to gather byte statistics for interfaces? > > it is for performance reasons. You can > > a) collect your numbers more often and asume wrap/reboot if numbers > decrease > b) use iptables counters instead > > BTW: it is a very often discussed topic, personally (as net tools > maintainer) I would love to see 64bit counters here, but this still means > you have to sample often enough, so you do not lose numbers on crash. I sample the data every minute. Will need to do it much more often on 10ge ifaces, when those will appear at my home ;) Or we will need 64bit counters then. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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