Won't it change frequently if the machine has quite a few other processes
running, and is also receiving packets at a fairly high rate ?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:10 PM, John Martin <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 04/22/10 03:58 PM, Vishal Ahuja wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to monitor the number of rx_descriptors (using dtrace or
>> any other tool) being used in the e1000g driver on opensolaris 2008.11?
>>
>
> How about something like:
>
>  dtrace -n "e1000g_receive:entry{self->adapter=(e1000g_t *)arg0;}
>  e1000g_receive:retu...@[0]=quantize(self->adapter->rx_desc_num);}"
>
> Although this is probably overkill as it doesn't look like the number
> of rx descriptors changes over time.
>
>
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