Mate system monitor applet often shows erroneous 100% up/down network activity

[geckolinux]

Hi, I'm using mate-applets 1.6.1-6 on Arch from the official Mate repo for Arch. I always use the system monitor applet with just the network monitor enabled. I frequently see this when the computer is idle with no network activity:

Obviously, it's wrong. When I use the network, it actually shows a break in the activity, and then when there is no throughput it again shows 4GB/s up/down. Even if I log out and log back into Mate it still acts the same way until I reboot. I only use the wlp2s0 interface with the iwlwifi driver on a Centrino laptop, and I don't have any local network sharing/browsing enabled on this system. I confirmed with vnstat that the system is correctly detecting and reporting network activity.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

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[infirit]

The applet takes the network stats from the interface and displays them. It very well may be that the the kernel is reporting these stats incorrectly. Have a look at the net device it's stats from the command line with ifconfig, iptraf or some other command line tool that shows the traffic.

[geckolinux]

Hi, thanks for taking a look at this. I did confirm with vnstat that the kernel is correctly detecting and reporting traffic.

[ada101]

I am having the same issue on my Celeron laptop only. I am using the iwlwifi driver on this particular laptop too. May be the driver?

Edit: My ethernet adapter seems to show a constantly increasing unrealistic value when in hardinfo:

Probably Ethernet related? My Ethernet adapter uses the atl1c driver.

[geckolinux]

This is still an issue on openSUSE Tumbleweed current, on the same laptop with Intel WiFI.