From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Mark J Roberts <mjr@znex.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Annoying /proc/net/dev rollovers.
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:21:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030217042156.GA2759@f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030217024605.GB246@znex>
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:46:05PM -0600, Mark J Roberts wrote:
> When the windows box behind my NAT is using all of my 640kbit/sec
> downstream to download movies, it takes a little over 14 hours to
> download four gigabytes and roll over the byte counter.
Therefore userspace needs to check the counters more often... say ever
30s or so and detect rollover. Most of this could be simply
encapsulated in a library and made transparent to the upper layers.
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-17 4:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-16 22:16 Annoying /proc/net/dev rollovers Mark J Roberts
2003-02-17 1:41 ` Chris Wedgwood
2003-02-17 2:46 ` Mark J Roberts
2003-02-17 3:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-17 4:21 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2003-02-17 10:35 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-02-18 4:58 ` David Lang
2003-02-18 13:28 ` Matti Aarnio
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