From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 16 16:56: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D6437B401 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:56:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AFDB43F3F for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:56:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1H0tX0H018631; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:55:33 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:55:32 -0500 To: Julian Elischer , FreeBSD current users From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: resource usage overflow Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-RPI-Spam-Score: -1.6 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:48 PM -0800 2/16/03, Julian Elischer wrote: >I think I could make a case for these figures being extended >to 64 bits but: > >1/ is it worth it? what uses them? Easier to drop them. >2/ are these mandated by any standard? would making them > 64 bits break anything? >3/ would 64 bits be enough? We are getting both bigger and > faster 64000 times faster and 64000 times bigger and we > are back at seven seconds. 640 times faster and 640 times > bigger and we are still only at 70000 seconds (19 hours) > before overflow. When we're at only 400 times faster and 400 times bigger, we can always decide to increase it again... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message