Re: Tool for sampling /proc/net/softnet_stat statistics

[David Miller]

From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:36:07 +0100

> I lack of better, I coded up my own tool softnet_stat.pl here:
>  https://github.com/netoptimizer/network-testing/blob/master/bin/softnet_stat.pl
> 
> The output format/columns in /proc/net/softnet_stat is undocumented,
> plus values are printed in hex.  E.g. to decode the columns you need to
> read kernel function kernel softnet_seq_show() in
> kernel/net/core/net-procfs.c.
> 
> To make things easier I wrote this small perl script for get
> so human readable statistics from /proc/net/softnet_stat.

Good stuff!