Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 19:55:32 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: resource usage overflow Message-ID: <p05200f02ba75e30f6b26@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302161436230.99373-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302161436230.99373-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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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
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