HIGH RX PAUSE COUNT

[lino_calo_liber]

I HAVE TYPED show port flowcontrol over my S8 core switch. This is the answer:
Here are some of the ports that have RX counts:

port TX Pause Count RX Pause Count
-------- --------------- --------------
ge.4.7 0 48751000
ge.4.26 0 87754431
ge.4.38 0 47367545
ge.5.34 0 28592459
ge.5.36 0 49402054
ge.5.38 0 158671480
ge.5.46 0 39917565
What does it mean? How can I clear the RX Pause Count in order to start counting from "zero" again. I would like to see the data increasing. Frequentely I lost the uplink connectio from S8 to distribution switch. Can I troubleshoot this issue?Thanks

[Daniel_Coughlin]

Internally the ability to clear counters has been debated many times. Having historical data is often helpful and spot checking for changes is not hard. On the S and K series engineering added the loop command which is great for just this kind of thing.

[Daniel_Coughlin]

RX pause is the counter keeping track of how many pause frames received on the port shown. What ever is attached to port ge.4.7 has sent 48751000. When trouble shooting this issue I simply run the command say 10 minutes apart and find the change. This will give you the rate that they are coming in at. The next step here is to look at the devices connected to the ports.