This counter reports a live, instantaneous receive rate in frames per second for this PM instance, sampled at the moment of the read rather than accumulated over the entire life of the counter to date. Because it is a rate rather than a running total, it is the figure to poll for catching a short-lived spike or confirming current throughput in near real time, complementing the cumulative Accepted/Yellow/Dropped counters reported in a cumulative counter with no fixed interval boundary, running since the element or counter was created, which only tell you what already happened rather than what is happening at this instant. For instance, this rate spiking into the tens of thousands of frames per second (as reported through the AllTime bin) while the matching BasicRxBytesPerSec barely moves would point to a flood of very small packets, such as a SYN-flood-style event, rather than an ordinary large data transfer.