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Subject: Re: intermittant petabyte usage reported with broadcom nic
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:25:58 +1000
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:18:24PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > > Apr 11 22:14:02 '  eth0:220898233988841368 66750274    0    0    0     0          0  86458738 52386430545 101089219 199313    0    0     0  199313          0 '
> 
> > > Apr 11 22:15:02 '  eth0:17227454818 81381144    0    0    0     0          0         0 33091307388 86658381    0    0    0     0       0          0 '
> 
> > But in fact I think you're saying that the numbers go bad, and then stay bad.
> 
> Doesn't look like it -- one minute after the first hiccup the eth0 #s
> look reasonable again.

Yeah. Sorry for not making it clear. I included good values on either
side of the bad one.

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