From owner-freebsd-net Mon Sep 9 8:18:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5692E37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch [62.48.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC0AE43E3B for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 75309 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2002 15:15:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) ([62.48.0.54]) (envelope-sender ) by mailtoaster1.pipeline.ch (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Sep 2002 15:15:52 -0000 Message-ID: <3D7CBB8A.B9F426C6@pipeline.ch> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 17:17:30 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petr Holub Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 32 bit couters in netstat References: <004501c25811$fed51160$27e86cc2@kloboucek> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Petr Holub wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've just found that netstat in FreeBSD 4.4 has just 32 bit couters > (compared to 64 bit counters in NetBSD), at least for Ibytes and Obytes. > Is there any improvement in this respect in -STABLE or in -CURRENT? No because certain people argue that having a 64 bit counter slows down the machine to the level of a 386SX-16 and who needs large counters anyway... IMO 64 bit interface counters are a must and ipfw counters are 64 bits wide since 3.0 without any noticeable impact on performance (other than rule processing). -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message