pftop queue stats

Yuriy Grishin grishin-mailing-lists at minselhoz.samara.ru
Sat Mar 28 07:45:59 PDT 2009


Jay Aikat wrote:
> Hi,
>     I am looking for a way to log queue stats at less than 1 second 
> intervals.
>
> On my FreeBSD router, the pf.conf file is configured as follows:
> > altq on $ext_if1 priq bandwidth 622Mb qlimit 65535 queue { tcp_q1 }
> > queue tcp_q1 on $ext_if1 qlimit 65535 priq (default)
>
> Using pftop, I can get queue lengths per second at best.
> $ pftop -s 1 -v queue -d 1000 > pftop.out
>
> Is there an option in pftop to log stats per millisecond, or even 
> 100ms?  The -s option above seems to default to 1 second at best.
>
> Thanks for any pointers you can give me.

I suppose that there should be some pre-defined variables in the source 
code.
BTW Why do you use an extremely large qlimit?


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