On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Russell Fulton wrote: > I have also been watching the actual counters given by pfctl -si rather > than the rates which remain stubbornly constant no matter what I do. So > even though we now have > > $ sudo pfctl -si | grep congestion > congestion 3164004 0.6/s > > the congestion counter was 3164004 when I looked first thing this > morning (about 5 hours ago). Something would appear to be amiss with > the rate calculations! I note that of the other rates the only ones > that change are the state counters and the matches counter. I am > wondering if the rate gets updated only if the counter actually changes.
Those rates get pretty meaningless after a while. It's the Total divided by the uptime of pf (the "Enabled for" line). So just the grand average, not a real-time decaying average.
