Re: Net device byte statistics

[Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>]

Denis,

@ $7K per card you will not have to worry for a while :-O

-a

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

> 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
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