COMPONENT

    net

SUMMARY

    Linux network component

DESCRIPTION

    This network component enables PAPI-C to access the network
    statistics exported by the Linux kernel through the /proc
    pseudo-file system (file /proc/net/dev).

    This component will dynamically create a native events table
    based on the number of interfaces listed in /proc/net/dev (16
    entries for each network interface).

    Event names
    -------------------------
      "<ifname>.rx.bytes",
      "<ifname>.rx.packets",
      "<ifname>.rx.errors",
      "<ifname>.rx.dropped",
      "<ifname>.rx.fifo",
      "<ifname>.rx.frame",
      "<ifname>.rx.compressed",
      "<ifname>.rx.multicast",
      "<ifname>.tx.bytes",
      "<ifname>.tx.packets",
      "<ifname>.tx.errors",
      "<ifname>.tx.dropped",
      "<ifname>.tx.fifo",
      "<ifname>.tx.colls",
      "<ifname>.tx.carrier",
      "<ifname>.tx.compressed"

    By default the Linux kernel only updates the network statistics
    once every second (see the references listed in the "SEE ALSO"
    section for some problems you may come across and for how to
    change the default polling period).

    Note: The Linux network statistics are updated by code that
    resides in the file net/core/dev.c.

AUTHOR

  Initial written by Haihang You <you@cs.utk.edu>.
  Re-written by Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo@di.uminho.pt> in order
  to source data directly from /proc/net/dev.

SEE ALSO

 * Network Stats Anomaly
   http://collectl.sourceforge.net/NetworkStats.html

 * Occasionally corrupted network stats in /proc/net/dev
   http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/1/14/566936
   http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/1/14/567512


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