On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:50:30AM +0100, Andrew Hall wrote:
> would someone kindly provide a brief overview of how the traffic statistics
> are calculated with the ipvsadm rate flag - in particular InBPS and OutBPS.
>
> if that's outside the scope of this list then could you please answer just
> the following question: is the output always displayed in bytes and is it
> considered an accurate and reliable measure.
Hi,
these statistics are maintained by the kernel.
The code to do so is in net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c in the kernel tree
which features the following comment.
/*
This code is to estimate rate in a shorter interval (such as 8
seconds) for virtual services and real servers. For measure rate in a
long interval, it is easy to implement a user level daemon which
periodically reads those statistical counters and measure rate.
Currently, the measurement is activated by slow timer handler. Hope
this measurement will not introduce too much load.
We measure rate during the last 8 seconds every 2 seconds:
avgrate = avgrate*(1-W) + rate*W
where W = 2^(-2)
NOTES.
* The stored value for average bps is scaled by 2^5, so that maximal
rate is ~2.15Gbits/s, average pps and cps are scaled by 2^10.
* A lot code is taken from net/sched/estimator.c
*/
The implementation itself is mainly in estimation_timer(), which updates
the statistics every 2s, and ip_vs_read_estimator(), which filters output
when it is read from user-space. Both of these functions are in
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c.
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