From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
Cc: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 13:11:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080531131143.516ca56e@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080530151250.b44a119a.billfink@mindspring.com>
> When diagnosing network problems, the ability to zero counters is
> a major aid in diagnosis. Writing scripts is not a general solution
> since often several systems are involved and it's not simple to do
> this via a script. Saving stats output and running beforeafter on
> a number of systems is a royal pain when troubleshooting.
Zeroing them is not a general solution either - you break all the other
tools monitoring the same stats in parallel - like network usage monitors.
This is a user space tools problem, scripts or otherwise.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-31 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-16 15:18 [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface network statistics via procfs James Cammarata
2008-05-16 16:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-16 20:03 ` David Miller
2008-05-17 14:54 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-17 21:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-17 22:49 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-18 0:31 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-18 1:43 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-18 5:09 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-18 11:27 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-29 1:45 ` [PATCH] net: add ability to clear stats via ethtool - e1000/pcnet32 James Cammarata
2008-05-29 2:08 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 5:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-29 12:34 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 14:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-29 17:15 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 20:50 ` David Miller
2008-05-29 21:18 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-30 19:12 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-30 22:14 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-31 1:09 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-31 2:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-31 2:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-31 4:47 ` Bill Fink
2008-05-31 12:11 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-31 23:57 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-01 1:46 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-01 20:46 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-01 22:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-02 3:55 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-02 5:39 ` David Miller
2008-06-02 15:41 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-02 4:50 ` Glen Turner
2008-06-02 16:10 ` Bill Fink
2008-06-03 12:28 ` James Cammarata
2008-06-03 12:35 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-03 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-04 3:05 ` James Cammarata
2008-05-29 14:48 ` Chris Friesen
2008-05-16 20:00 ` [PATCH updated] net: add ability to clear per-interface network statistics via procfs David Miller
2008-05-16 20:09 ` Rick Jones
2008-05-17 15:06 ` James Cammarata
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