Thanks Kyle, Dmitri, that is correct, I am referring to the tooltip and the main window not matching. 1.6MB != 4.4MB regardless of whether using 1024 or 1000 bytes per KB, etc.
Until recently I had only used the tooltip to track my network usage. When I confirmed it with the transfer window I saw it was off. When I checked it against the network monitor window I saw it also did not match. Many other users may just use the tooltip, so it would be helpful if the tooltip was accurate. I'm new to posting bugs here so I have remarked confirmed, but please update if I was not supposed to do that. thanks, Peter ** Changed in: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/845775 Title: gnome system monitor shows network upload speed that is inaccurate Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: when transfering a file from local to remote host via eth0, rcp shows a transfer speed of 4MB/s. Checking /proc/net/dev confirms a transfer speed of about 5MB/s, and calculating the transfer rate from the ETA and filesize confirms a transfer rate of about 4 megabytes / second. However, when rolling the mouse over the network window of the gnome system monitor shows a speed of about 1/5-1/10 of that reported by /proc and rcp (or scp) of about 500 KB/s. gnome-system-monitor version 2.28.1-1ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 10.10 thanks, Peter --- Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4) Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.28.2-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8 Tags: natty Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-17 (54 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/845775/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp