Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 117954
network part can give false information about network load
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: The network part of the GNOME system monitor can be tricked into giving false information about the system load. When excessively leftclicking on the network thing, it will display there is 0% network load, even when there is heavy network traffic. It will also stop drawing bars that indicate the network traffic. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start a large file transfer 2. click like your life depends on it on the network traffic monitor 3. Actual Results: The applet indicated 0% network traffic and didn't draw any bars, even though there was quite a bit of network traffic. Additional info:
Can you confirm continuous heavy network load with external measurement? If I attempt to reproduce, my reported CPU load jumps significantly and network load drops dramatically. However, the other machine involved in the transfer does indicate a significant drop in network throughput as well, so these measurements may be accurate.