[Mono-list] Network Interface // Performance counters

[Ivan Hawkes]

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On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 11:06 pm, Timothy Parez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In .NET/Win2k I would use performance counters to
>
>   a.. Check the bandwith of the network
>   b.. Check the bytes/sec upload
>   c.. Check the bytes/sec download
>   d.. Check the pakkets/sec upload
>   e.. Check the pakkets/sec download
> I would like to do the same thing but have it working on linux.
> I don't assume performance counters are available?
> So how would I do this ?
>
> Thnx
> Timothy

This may be tricky under Mono because of the way performance counters are=20
provided by Windows. They are really just code that writes constantly to th=
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registry as far as I could tell. I had a few goes using them with C++ and t=
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ATL but in the end it was soooo much trouble I just got something to output=
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an XML file every 10 seconds instead. Slack, I know, but it solved the=20
problem :-)

I guess instead of using the registry these could be moved to the /proc=20
filesytem and the support libraries written to handle it like this. Windows=
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required you to also put either a COM interface on your service or use=20
something like sockets to comunicate with a DLL you supplied to pass the=20
counters along. Very messy. I'm sure Mono and Linux can do something a lot=
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nicer than that :-)
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