conky network speed 1B in idle

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Binary package hint: conky

hello,
i have latest ubuntu (9.10) & conky 1.7.2. I have noticed, that network parameters in conky:
${downspeed eth0} and ${upspeed eth0} always show both 1B and not 0B in state when I transfer nothing (in or out - checked against default Ubuntu network panel applet).
Do not know if this if bug, but it will be maybe better to have 0B. Thanks.

[Carl Davis (carl.davis)]

You may want to try to:

sudo tcpdump -i eth0

at a terminal window to see if the interface is really idle. I have installed conky on 9.10 and on my interface that is truly idle (no link light) and I get 0k/s in and 0k/s out. I suspect that running tcpdump will show that there really is some traffic on your interface.

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Carl good point... but anyway, tcp dump gave me nothing. I tried to stop network completely (networking stop) and I still have 1B of upload and download... Hmm, this is really weird. To be sure, I enclose my whole network fragment:

${font Arial:bold:size=10}${color sienna}NETWORK ${color DarkSlateGray}${hr 2}
$font${color DimGray}Down $alignr ${downspeed eth0} kb/s
Up $alignr ${upspeed eth0} kb/s

[Carl Davis (carl.davis)]

Thank you for the additional information. I used your network config and still cannot reproduce this bug. I wondered if you might try unplugging your network interface completely so that we know your network has no traffic and see if conky will then report zero.

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Hi, sure, I did it, but I still had 1B when I have my net cable unplugged:) This is funny.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

What is your net_avg_samples configuration variable?
Can you show us the content of the file /proc/net/dev?
Can you check if the first and ninth items of the eth0 line in this file are constant or do they regularly change when conky is showing the 1B speed?

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

>What is your net_avg_samples configuration variable?

Actually, it would be way better if you can give us your whole conf file with any special command line parameters you use.

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Hi,

aaaahhh, I do not now exactly what net_avg_samples is (The number of samples to average for net data), but I changed it to "2" and now it works! Thanks a lot.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Fix for this has been committed (fix idle rate equal to 1 instead of 0 when using net_avg_samples=1). karmic user wishing to benefit from this change can use the package from my ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~norsetto/+archive/ppa/+packages

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

conky (1.7.2-0ubuntu6) lucid; urgency=low

  * Change arch to all for transitional package
  * Change source package format to 3.0 (quilt)
  * Reformat all patch headears iaw DEP-3
  * Move deletion of config.{guess, sub} to clean target to avoid FTBFS
    if built twice in a row
  * debian/patches/add_thread_fix_proc.patch:
    add support for $threads and fix $processes on Linux
    commit aad43bea8d3840babb502d939be324ba49c3b74e
  * debian/patches/fix_segfault_leaks_curl.patch:
    fix segfault and memleaks in curl
    commit e292dd5e280aa9c288bc6c2e1143270f5f5a08f4
  * debian/patches/add_current_user.patch (LP: #405707):
    add $user_time: if no argument is given, lists the
    login time for the tty connected to conky's standard input (if any).
    Given a console as an argument it gives the login time for that.
  * debian/patches/fix_mpd_when_stop.patch:
    fix $if_mpd_playing and $mpd_percent when you stop playing a song
    commit 827be3bde828fcf8d7be949168ac4909f6c323a2
    Thanks Sakari Matikka
  * debian/patches/fix_idle_rate_when_not_averaging.patch (LP: #493131):
    fix idle rate equal to 1 instead of 0 when using net_avg_samples=1
    commit b1cbc64f6075e0145edfb919df3e21a210f5328e
  * debian/patches/fix_manpage_width.patch:
    fix man warning: table wider than line width
    commit a14cca6592ec506b1a535be43912b4a72b40f11f
  * debian/patches/add_startup_pause_option.patch:
    add the -p/--pause command line option
    commit 584d05d2ad66edf1f53372382826a2416b50d9da
  * debian/patches/add_extended_cairo_structures.patch
    add creation functions for the cairo_font_extents_t,
    cairo_text_extents_t and cairo_matrix_t structures
    commit 8bd41caa51e080fd3ef28c7cdeee775872cdc1f4
  * debian/patches/fix_manpage_typos.patch
    fix typos in manpage
    commit c8a99a865adbd862bf74c0ca310fda796601fb5f

 -- Cesare Tirabassi <email address hidden> Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:22:54 +0100