In this output, the statistics for interrupt (INTRS) are significant. Low interrupt numbers indicate greater efficiency in performance. If the interrupt numbers are high, then you might need to add more resources to the specific link.

Example:

# dlstat -r -i 1

LINK IPKTS RBYTES INTRS POLLS CH<10 CH10-50 CH>50

e1000g0 101.91K 32.86M 87.56K 14.35K 3.70K 205 5

nxge1 9.61M 14.47G 5.79M 3.82M 379.98K 85.66K 1.64K

vnic1 8 336 0 0 0 0 0

e1000g0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

nxge1 82.13K 123.69M 50.00K 32.13K 3.17K 724 24

vnic1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Note: dlstat show-link [-r [-F] | -t] [-i interval] [-a] [-p] [ -o field[, ...]] [-u R|K|M|G|T|P] [link]

Display statistics for a link.

-r

Display receive-side statistics only. Includes bytes and packets received, hardware and software drops, and so forth.

List of supported RX fields:

link

iusedby

ibytes

ipkts

intrs

polls

hdrops: hardware drops

sdrops: software drops (owing to bandwidth enforcement)

ch<10: number of packet chains of length < 10

ch10-50: number of packet chains of length between 10 and 50

ch>50: number of packet chains of length > 50