Impossibly high network traffic reported

Marc Wiatrowski mwia at iglass.net
Mon Nov 10 08:05:49 CST 2008


On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 13:47 +0000, Stephen Childs wrote:

> Kenneth Porter wrote:
> > I found Ganglia here:
> > 
> > <http://ganglia.info/>
> > 
> > Alas, I can't find anything in the website to suggest what's being used to 
> > measure the network bandwidth. That'll probably require trolling through 
> > source code.
> 
> Lemon reads information on each host from /proc/net/dev. I suspect ganglia 
> does the same as it seems to be getting the same spurious readings.
> 


Could it be the result of a counter flipping or resetting to 0 from a
restart or something similar?  -marc
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