multiload applet shows network upload speed that is inaccurate
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-applets (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
when transfering a file from local to remote host via eth0, rcp shows a transfer speed of 4MB/s. Checking /proc/net/dev confirms a transfer speed of about 5MB/s, and calculating the transfer rate from the ETA and filesize confirms a transfer rate of about 4 megabytes / second. However, when rolling the mouse over the network window of the gnome system monitor shows a speed of about 1/5-1/10 of that reported by /proc and rcp (or scp) of about 500 KB/s.
gnome-system-
thanks,
Peter
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
Package: gnome-system-
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
Tags: natty
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-17 (54 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare
Are you sure you're using the right units? I mean are you sure it's 4MB/s and not 4Mb/s? gnome-system- monitor uses KB/s so 500KB/s = 4000Kb/s so pretty close to 4Mb/s...
If you're sure you used the right units please provide more info about your hardware ( lspci -vv ) and also please run:
apport-collect 845775
from terminal.