[rrd-users] Can this script be optimised ?

[Simon Hobson]

I've just replaced an old (now broken) 1U rackmount server that was 
running a router with a small system (Alix2, 500MHz AMD Geode). I've 
been looking at other stuff (in particular, taking great care with 
efficiency of TC filters) - this script seems to take a fair bit of 
resource, can anyone see any optimisation I've missed ?

It's getting the outside interface byte count from the "RX 
bytes:669179382 (638.1 MiB)  TX bytes:2259193189 (2.1 GiB) " line 
output by ifconfig. And updating a remote RRD every 2 seconds 
(approx). The script is started by cron every minute, and exits 
before the next minute starts.


#!/bin/bash
# Get traffic count from interface counters of global interface

EndTime=$(( `/bin/date +%s` + 58 ))
HostName=$( /usr/bin/head -1 /etc/hostname )
while [ $( /bin/date +%s ) -lt ${EndTime} ]
do
   UpdateVal=$( /sbin/ifconfig ethext | \
     /bin/grep 'RX bytes' | \
     /bin/sed -r -e 's/^.*RX bytes:([0-9]+) .* TX bytes:([0-9]+) .*$/\1:\2/' )
   /usr/bin/rrdtool update ${HostName}/global.rrd --daemon w.x.y.z 
"N:${UpdateVal}"
   sleep 2
done
 
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