Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GE traffic statistics (/proc/net/dev) | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | 06 Jun 2003 01:04:05 -0700 |
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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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