Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 11:13:29 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving some mail. Message-ID: <199510241013.LAA14978@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > over the last two day and a half days we have AVERAGED 3.31 kBytes of > mail per SECOND. outbound ONLY. > > mind now that the queue is a little backed up with 2000+ messages. > half of those are due to 2 sites which are having difficulties....grrrrr! > > i thnk we need to got to 64bit counters in the networking code....the > data is moving so fast that its gone negative. Lessee. 64 bits are about 1.6e19, a year has about pi e7 seconds, we get roughly 1e6 bytes/second max from the ethernet. Makes 5e5 years until the numbers turn around. Are you implying you don't expect uptimes of a mere 500000 years (only 50000 for FDDI)??? tg
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