On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 06:38:28PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: > It seems that the byte counters (derived from netstat -nbi) reset at > around 4 GB. Is there no way around this? It would be nice to be able to > see an accurate display of totals. It just seems pointless to even have > this, as 4 GB is just not that much anymore. I know this is a 32bit > limitation of the variable, but that's just bad coding in my opinion (no > offence intended), I mean there must be some way around this. 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. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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