I would like to confirm something similar. It looks like 'Total sent' (or received) amount of bytes is kept in a 32bit variable and is wrapped around each 4GB sent. You will never see total sent larger than 4GB. When the wrap happens you can see the transfer rate graph go to zero for a moment. Caused probably by using the wrapped variable in calculating speed (prev = 4GB, new =0 => speed negative). Changing the counter to 64bits should be a temporary fix. In the long run some kind of bignum is needed (or decrease resolution and count the amount of kB transmitted, then MB, then GB). Leaving it as is makes the counter quite useless especially as you can achieve gigabit speeds on networks today.
This is all speculations as I didn't look at the source, but it seems quite clear to me. -- Network history: Total recieved counter is wild https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284423 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
