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SubjectRe: GE traffic statistics (/proc/net/dev)
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On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 07:20, uaca@alumni.uv.es wrote:
> I found very extrange that, for this device, stats on /proc/net/dev updates
> each second (more or less), that is, not in sub-second intervals. Again note
> this only happens for this device and not for other NIC card (Fast-Ethernet
> card, e100).

The chip only periodically sends updated statistics to main
memory via DMA, the interval can be changed using the
'ethtool' utility.

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David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
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