[Cerowrt-devel] Network device transfer counter loops at 4GB

[Justin Madru]

Thanks for the reply. I'll take a look at vnstat. It still seems like
making the counters 64bit would be a better out-of-the-box solution,
especially since the web-ui is displaying these values which are nearly
useless.

--Justin


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Sebastian Moeller <moeller0 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Justin,
>
> have a look at vnstat and vnstati if you want to keep a better overview of
> Rx/Tx volumes over time… (Then again, it might not be what you are looking
> for)
>
> best
>         Sebastian
>
>
> On Jan 24, 2013, at 00:55 , Justin Madru wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that the TX/RX counter as reported by ifconfig and in the web
> ui loop over at 4GB (2^32). Is this something that could be fixed?
>
>         Just guessing here, but that smells like a 32bit counter which
> might be involved to change to 64bit. So you could just periodically read
> out the value and compare to your last value to detect overruns (assuming
> you sample at a period smaller than the shortest possible roll-over time).
> Then again this seems what vnstat is doing.
>
> > Interestingly, the ifb0 device (what ever that is) does not have this
> issue.
>
>
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/ifb
>
> > It would be nice to know the amount of data I've transferred at least
> for GE00.
>
>         Me = broken record: have a look at the vnstat and vnstati packed
> that are part of the cerowrt repository that Dave maintains (THANKS A LOT)
>
> If you should go the vnstat route here is what I ended up with (nothing
> fancy, but it seems to work okay):
>
> Here is my System->Startup-> local startup (can be pasted into the lucy
> text box)
>
> # Put your custom commands here that should be executed once
> # the system init finished. By default this file does nothing.
>
> #manual vnstat updates... since vnstat logs to tmpfs re-init the database
> mkdir /var/lib/vnstat
> vnstat -u -i ge00
>
> # start the traffic shaping script on startup...
> #/usr/sbin/simple_qos.sh
>
>
> # be verbose in dmesg and log
> echo 1 1 1 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
> # helps unaligned access errors show up in log
> #echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/mips/unaligned_action
>
> # to make vnstat robust against reboots (to monitor volume caps)
> # this will copy the saved vnstat database over the just initialized (more
> or less empty db)
> /etc/init.d/vnstatbackup restore
>
> # minimize the too large tmpfs (to avoid OOM), this is better handled by
> adding swap
> # might interfere with sys upgrade procedure (default is ram/2 IIRC
> mount tmpfs /tmp -t tmpfs -o remount,size=16000k,nosuid,nodev
>
> exit 0
>
>
> and here is /etc/init.d/vnstatbackup:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ## Please visit http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/vnstat
> # 20121008sm: automate parsing of vnstat related information
> # place this script in /etc/init.d
> # make it executable: chmod 755 /etc/init.d/vnstatbackup
> # 4 CRON: echo "*/30 * * * * /etc/init.d/vnstatbackup backup" >>
> /etc/crontabs/root
> #       /etc/init.d/cron restart
> # 4 INIT add
> # /etc/init.d/vnstatbackup restore
> # to /etc/rc.local
>
>
> # edit this to point to where you stored the db
> BACKUP_BASE_DIR="/home/persistent"      # where to store the database
> backup
>
> # for vnstat have a look at /etc/vnstat.conf (code taken from
> /etc/init.d/vnstat)
> vnstat_option() {
>     sed -ne "s/^[[:space:]]*$1[[:space:]]*['\"]\([^'\"]*\)['\"].*/\1/p" \
>     /etc/vnstat.conf
> }
> VNSTAT_DB_DIR="$(vnstat_option DatabaseDir)"
> VNSTAT_BASE_DIR=`dirname ${VNSTAT_DB_DIR}` #${VNSTAT_DB_DIR%/*}
> VNSTAT_SUB_DIR=`basename ${VNSTAT_DB_DIR}` #"vnstat"
>
> #echo "VNSTAT_DB_DIR ${VNSTAT_DB_DIR}"
> #echo "VNSTAT_BASE_DIR ${VNSTAT_BASE_DIR}"
> #echo "VNSTAT_SUB_DIR ${VNSTAT_SUB_DIR}"
> #echo "BACKUP_BASE_DIR ${BACKUP_BASE_DIR}"
>
> case $1 in
>     backup)
>         cp -r ${VNSTAT_BASE_DIR}/${VNSTAT_SUB_DIR} ${BACKUP_BASE_DIR}
>         ;;
>     restore)
>         cp -r ${BACKUP_BASE_DIR}/${VNSTAT_SUB_DIR} ${VNSTAT_BASE_DIR}
>         ;;
>     *)
>         echo "Please use 'backup' or 'restore' parameter for run";
>         ;;
> esac
>
> exit 0
>
> Note that I mounted a USB stick under /home to have plenty of space, but
> you should also be able to use the persistent overlay part of cerowrt
> (where config files and such are stored) but that will stress the precious
> flash (a usb stick, by virtue of being replaceable and cheap is just less
> precious).
>
> Finally System->Scheduled Tasks:
>
> */5 * * * * vnstat -u
> */30 * * * * /etc/init.d/vnstatbackup backup
>
> The first polls the Rx/Tx counters every 5 minutes (if your link is very
> fast you might want to reduce that)
> The second pushes the vnstat database every 30 minutes to the stick. The
> idea here is that you might want vnstat to do something even when the stick
> is (accidentally) removed.
>
> best
>         Sebastian
>
>
> >
> > --Justin Madru
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