# Interpretating values for Network statistics
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/interpretating-values-for-network-statistics/4019
**Category:** Percona Monitoring Plugins
**Created:** [January 27, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/interpretating-values-for-network-statistics/4019 "2015-01-27T18:05:42Z")
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### Author:  [@supmethods](https://forums.percona.com/u/supmethods)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/interpretating-values-for-network-statistics/4019/1 "2015-01-27T18:05:42Z")
Hi
I’ve downloaded and installed the Percona Linux template. I noticed the values for tx-drop had values of ‘m’ and ‘u’ and don’t quite understand why I’m getting values of micro and milli.
I was expecting reading to simply be the number of packet dropped at that point of time but it doesn’t appear so.
So I’m interpreting it as follows:
- A defined time period divided by the number of dropped packets. eg. 12.5m would mean 80 packets dropped within a second. 150u would mean 6666.67 packets dropped within a second (1/150u)
Is this interpretation of the reading correct? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@weber](https://forums.percona.com/u/weber)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/interpretating-values-for-network-statistics/4019/2 "2015-01-28T15:26:35Z")
TX-drop is constantly increasing counter (derive in Cacti).
So the daily graph (5 min avg) should reflect a rate of change in packets dropped/sec within 5 min. interval.
The current value on the graph (for derive) is calculated as (prev\_value - cur\_value) / 300.
If you see 12.5m, it should translate to X / 300 = 12.5m. Therefore, X = 300 \* 12.5/1000 = 3.75 packets dropped within the last 5 min.
Accordingly, 150u == 0.045 packets.
Of course, it shouldn’t be decimal but may be you were looking to weekly or monthly graph where interval is not 300?
To verify:
[root@host ~]# cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo:1592496297 2435686 0 0 0 0 0 0 1592496297 2435686 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0:6563229868651 4662142281 0 0 0 0 0 66380 354572077461 2642132444 0 164 0 0 0 0
Capture “drop” number at the full 5-min. time, i.e. at XX:X5:00. Wait 5 min. and get the new “drop” number.
Calculate the change as (prev\_value - cur\_value) / 300 and compare with what is shown on the daily graph.