[ofa-general] IB performance stats (revisited)

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:23, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> > 
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > so I guess these guys are poor citizens as well...
> > 
> > Not sure what you mean.
> > 
> > > the real issue as I see it then means nobody can trust the data if 
> > > randon tools randomly reset the counters.  a real shame...
> 
> In IBADM ibmon we worked around this issue by inspecting the fact the 
> counter value decreases without the ibmon knowledge.

That is detected in the current PerfMgr as well: it is an "out of band"
clear. The question is the loss of data accuracy from the last snapshot
to the new lower values.

-- Hal

> > 
> > I consider this to be a real rather than random app for this. 
> > Guess it depends on what one considers random.
> > 
> > -- Hal
> > 
> > > -mark
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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