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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Hall <mh@mhcomputing.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: per-PID network stats files in /proc
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:02:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380056549.3165.117.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130924204442.GA5074@mhcomputing.net>

On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 13:44 -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 01:41:57PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > No. because most of these would be associated with global state.
> > Even sockets can be shared between PID's.
> 
> OK. So if this is true, then I feel compelled to ask, why does 
> /proc/PID/net/snmp exist in the first place, if it would never really work?

That because of network containers

You can perfectly use a network container to get your own copy of
counters

ip netns help

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-24 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-24 20:15 per-PID network stats files in /proc Matthew Hall
2013-09-24 20:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-24 20:44   ` Matthew Hall
2013-09-24 21:02     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-09-24 21:04     ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-24 21:22       ` Matthew Hall
2013-09-26 20:12         ` Matthew Hall

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