Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:14:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> To: "Brooks Davis" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Byte counters reset at ~4GB Message-ID: <2659.192.168.0.200.1079396056.squirrel@192.168.0.1> In-Reply-To: <20040315234448.GA28383@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <2650.192.168.0.200.1079393908.squirrel@192.168.0.1> <20040315234448.GA28383@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis said: > > Please read the archives of freebsd-net. This has been discussed > many times. There are valid reasons for this, particularly the fact > that 64-bit counters are much more expensive to update on 32-bit > architectures. API breakage is also a problem. We're aware that 2^32 > is way to small a limit for modern network counters, but fixing it isn't > trivial on 32-bit hardware. Ok then, thats too bad. Sorry for the noise.
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