From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 14 11:47:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [66.31.234.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E7637B404; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by thehousleys.net (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g0EJl8d03887; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:47:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jeh@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.125]) (authenticated) by thehousleys.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0EJl6g03878; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:47:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jeh@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3C4335BA.63828FD0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:47:06 -0500 From: "James E. Housley" Organization: FreeBSD X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Thomas Hurst , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 64 bit counters again References: <3C41F3FD.4ECC8CD@mindspring.com> <20020113231459.GA30349@voi.aagh.net> <3C42390A.F9E9F533@mindspring.com> <3C42E899.CB21BD0A@FreeBSD.org> <3C431EE5.1CFF557B@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > "James E. Housley" wrote: > > Right now I am trying to do network usage on the overflows the 32 bit > > counters in 60 120 seconds. That means the netstat values are useless, > > mrtg and other programs that poll for results every 5 minutes or so are > > useless. If I want to get good data I have to get the counts every 10 > > seconds or so to get reasonable results. > > Actually, I was thinking that if what you are counting overflowed > in such a short period of time, then you are counting the wrong > thing. > > Instead of bytes, try counting K or frames, instead of frames, > count packets, etc.. > > You still haven't told us exactly what counter is overflowing... > Bytes out is overflowing on a nice new DG box. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net jhousley@SimTel.Net http://www.SimTel.Net --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing is fool proof, because fools are too ingenious. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message