Mike Klinke wrote:
Actually I'm referring to the network portion of the panel display. Though the Network History in the resources tab of the system monitor window agrees.On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:49, David J. Bakeman wrote:Both ethereal and tcpdump show nothing when I think I'n doing nothing even though the gnome system monitor displays >60% usage(Both ethereal and tcpdump do show something when I'm reading email, accessing the web, etc)? Who do I believe?If you're referring to the resource monitor percentage display, I'm guessing both. Gnome-system-monitor monitors much besides just the network traffic that tcpdump and ethereal monitor. Try running "top" at a command prompt to see which processes are taking up your processor time.
The worrisome thing to me is that it drops back to zero after I do something like loading a web page then a little while later it ramps up again. Though tcpdump shows nothing. I hope it's the gnome system monitor. I've verified the tcpdump and ps rpm packages so unless my rpm db is corrupt they should be showing me the correct stuff.
I do notice that I'm getting both ath0 and a wifi0 are created by the madwifi stuff so maybe that's the issue? OK this was a false alarm at least with this group :<( The issue seems to be with the newer madwifi stuff I installed at the same time as the new kernel. I dug up a Ethernet cable that was long enough that I could go land line and all the unexplained network stuff stopped.
Thanks for the help I'll go bother the madwifi people now :<)
Regards, Mike Klinke