Re: update frequency for stats in /proc/net/dev

2007-12-18 Thread Mark Seger
Thomas Graf wrote: * Mark Seger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-12-18 08:37 Anyhow, I just wanted to let people know that ALL tools that monitor once a second on older counters will get the wrong numbers and tools that correct for the wrong number by using fractional intervals (and I suspect min

Re: update frequency for stats in /proc/net/dev

2007-12-18 Thread Thomas Graf
* Mark Seger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-12-18 08:37 > Anyhow, I just wanted to let people know that ALL tools that monitor > once a second on older counters will get the wrong numbers and tools > that correct for the wrong number by using fractional intervals (and I > suspect mine is the only one

update frequency for stats in /proc/net/dev

2007-12-18 Thread Mark Seger
A number of years ago I had written a comprehensive system monitoring tool called collectl, which among other things allowed me to monitor network traffic in real-time display as well as log the data to a file. Furthermore, that file can be generated in a format suitable for plotting with gnup