Re: perfmonitor and pmgraph

["Bamm Visscher" <bamm.visscher () gmail com>]

What version of libpcap do you have installed?

Bammkkkk


On 9/20/06, Paul Melson <pmelson () gmail com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use pmgraph to analyze Snort 2.4 perfmonitor statistics.
> Specifically, I am trying to troubleshoot dropped packets on a moderately
> busy sensor.
>
> The problem I am having with the perfmonitor file is that there seem to be
> some crazy values in the field that, as I understand it, is the % of dropped
> packets:
>
> (from pmgraph.pl):
>
>     while (chomp(my @fields = split(/,/, <PERF>))) {
>
>         my $time      = $fields[0];
>         my $drops     = $fields[1];
>         my $alerts    = $fields[3];
>         my $kpackets  = $fields[4];
>         my $avg_bytes = $fields[5];
>
>
> (from my perfmonitor file via `tail -10 perfmon.out |cut -d, -f1-2`):
> 1158767893,7436141.591
> 1158767958,0.000
> 1158768193,0.000
> 1158768258,55.712
> 1158768495,3.262
> 1158768564,0.000
> 1158768795,0.000
> 1158768865,0.000
> 1158769096,45999421.902
> 1158769165,100.000
>
> What's with the impossibly large values in the 2nd field?  How can any of
> those values be larger than 100.000?
>
> Thanks,
> PaulM
>
>
>
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