From a3e57ad541290d54e330db99748c2b413ced5243 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Harl Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:21:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] collectd.conf(5): Explain the traffic collected by the vserver plugin. The plugin collects the amount of traffic passing a socket instead of the actual on-wire traffic. Thanks to cedric for reporting this. Resolves: #40 --- src/collectd.conf.pod | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod index bb23015a..1f936735 100644 --- a/src/collectd.conf.pod +++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod @@ -2598,6 +2598,12 @@ the F filesystem that is required by this plugin. The B homepage can be found at L. +B: The traffic collected by this plugin accounts for the amount of +traffic passing a socket which might be a lot less than the actual on-wire +traffic (e.Eg. due to headers and retransmission). If you want to +collect on-wire traffic you could, for example, use the logging facilities of +iptables to feed data for the guest IPs into the iptables plugin. + =head1 THRESHOLD CONFIGURATION Starting with version C<4.3.0> collectd has support for B. By that -- 2.11.0