misc/183598: netstat and wrong display of humanized packets counter
Olivier Cochard-Labbe
olivier at cochard.me
Sat Nov 2 18:30:01 UTC 2013
>Number: 183598
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: netstat and wrong display of humanized packets counter
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Nov 02 18:30:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Olivier Cochard-Labbe
>Release: 9.2
>Organization:
BSD Router Project
>Environment:
FreeBSD bsdrp1.orange.bsdrp.net 9.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 r255918M: Sat Oct 26 22:41:39 CEST 2013 root at orange.bsdrp.net:/usr/obj/BSDRP.amd64/usr/local/BSDRP/BSDRP/FreeBSD/src/sys/amd64 amd64
>Description:
1K packets = 1000 packets and not 1024 packets.
But netstat "-h" option convert 1024 packets to 1k packets.
In usr.bin/netstat/if.c, function show_stat() should call humanize_number() with the flag HN_DIVISOR_1000 for the packet counters.
>How-To-Repeat:
Here is the netstat output without and with the "h" option during receiving the same network load:
[root at bsdrp2]~# netstat -iw 1
input (Total) output
packets errs idrops bytes packets errs bytes colls
499963 244305 0 50996154 3 0 690 0
500346 214356 0 51035256 1 0 214 0
500937 257107 0 51095538 2 0 280 0
500167 187844 0 51016890 4 0 2744 0
499605 208954 0 50959638 3 0 546 0
499915 203059 0 50991258 2 0 2188 0
499355 183496 0 50934174 1 0 214 0
499843 197301 0 50983950 1 0 214 0
500193 211267 0 51020086 1 0 214 0
500233 243838 0 51023730 1 0 214 0
499386 238562 0 50937336 1 0 214 0
499577 235335 0 50956818 1 0 214 0
[root at bsdrp2]~# netstat -ihw 1
input (Total) output
packets errs idrops bytes packets errs bytes colls
489k 185k 0 48M 1 0 262 0
488k 196k 0 48M 1 0 214 0
489k 200k 0 48M 1 0 214 0
489k 193k 0 48M 1 0 214 0
488k 200k 0 48M 1 0 214 0
489k 196k 0 48M 1 0 214 0
487k 189k 0 48M 1 0 214 0
489k 195k 0 48M 1 0 214 0
488k 191k 0 48M 1 0 214 0
488k 192k 0 48M 5 0 2.8k 0
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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