[LUNA] [OT] quickie ....

Bob Nance bob.nance at novationsys.com
Sat Jul 11 23:13:43 CDT 2015


I think I might agree with you on that.

> On Jul 11, 2015, at 11:08 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at HiWAAY.net> wrote:
> 
> On 07/11/15 22:33, Bob Nance wrote:
>> If you drop pings to the other side it might be a dud. A lot of inexpensive routers deliberately lower the importance of ping responses since they have so little horsepower. Do a ping -c 10000 and let it run to some well maintained public site and base your decision on the percentage. If you lose more than 2-3% it's probably your router.
>> 
>> ---
>>  Bob Nance
>>  Novation Systems
>>  256-534-4620
>>  (iPhone-flavored)
> 
> More closely following your recommendation:
> 
> 
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 11:11:30pm] 530 % lltr10 ; ps -Tlf ; date
> -rw-------    1 wam  users       4788 Jul 11 05:01 LIST.cron
> -rw-------    1 wam  users     667316 Jul 11 08:27 mbox
> -rw-------    1 wam  users        267 Jul 11 10:01 README.installboot.txt
> -rw-------    1 wam  users        111 Jul 11 22:57 LIST
> drwx------   11 wam  users        512 Jul 11 23:06 .cache/
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:13 .vboxclient-clipboard.pid
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:13 .vboxclient-seamless.pid
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:13 .vboxclient-hostversion.pid
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:13 .vboxclient-display.pid
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:13 .vboxclient-draganddrop.pid
> UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS MWCHAN STAT TT     TIME COMMAND
> 1110  1292  1227   0  21  0 17576 4428 pause  Ss    4  0:00.54 tcsh
> 1110 76496     1   0  24  0 17576 2828 pause  I     4  0:00.01 /bin/csh -f /usr/local/bin/run ping -q -c 1000 216.180.54.1
> 1110 76499 76496   0  25  0  3836 1608 wait   I     4  0:00.00 /usr/bin/time nice -19 ping -q -c 1000 216.180.54.1
> 1110 76500 76499   0  39 19 14240 1872 select SN    4  0:00.11 ping -q -c 1000 216.180.54.1
> 1110 77617  1292   0  21  0 16304 1936 -      R+    4  0:00.00 ps -Tlf
> Sat Jul 11 23:13:20 MCDT 2015
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 11:13:20pm] 531 % more LIST
> 
> Beginning background ping -q -c 1000 216.180.54.1
> Initiated at 10:57:00 PM MCDT on Saturday, July 11, 2015
> 
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 11:13:34pm] 532 % lltr10 ; ps -Tlf ; date
> -rw-------    1 wam  users       4788 Jul 11 05:01 LIST.cron
> -rw-------    1 wam  users     667316 Jul 11 08:27 mbox
> -rw-------    1 wam  users        267 Jul 11 10:01 README.installboot.txt
> drwx------   11 wam  users        512 Jul 11 23:06 .cache/
> -rw-------    1 wam  users        437 Jul 11 23:13 LIST
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:14 .vboxclient-clipboard.pid
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:14 .vboxclient-seamless.pid
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:14 .vboxclient-hostversion.pid
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:14 .vboxclient-display.pid
> -rw-r-----    1 wam  users          6 Jul 11 23:14 .vboxclient-draganddrop.pid
> UID   PID PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS MWCHAN STAT TT     TIME COMMAND
> 1110  1292 1227   0  21  0 17576 4428 pause  Ss    4  0:00.55 tcsh
> 1110 77668 1292   0  21  0 16304 1936 -      R+    4  0:00.00 ps -Tlf
> Sat Jul 11 23:14:04 MCDT 2015
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 11:14:04pm] 533 % more LIST
> 
> Beginning background ping -q -c 1000 216.180.54.1
> Initiated at 10:57:00 PM MCDT on Saturday, July 11, 2015
> 
> PING 216.180.54.1 (216.180.54.1): 56 data bytes
> 
> --- 216.180.54.1 ping statistics ---
> 1000 packets transmitted, 507 packets received, 49.3% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 52.453/56.968/75.700/4.252 ms
>     1002.10 real         0.01 user         0.10 sys
> 
> Completed at 11:13:42 PM MCDT on Saturday, July 11, 2015
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 11:14:09pm] 534 %
> 
> 
> i.e. 49.3 % lost .... sounds like a dud to me ....
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	William A. Mahaffey III
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