On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > and easily triples the amount of storage for each of them... > > True, storage is tripled. But how many counters are we talking about here? > I guess rather a few, not thousands of them, right? > > > It is ugly :-( > > Yes, I certainly agree, it's ugly. But having wrong output from "vmstat -s" > and other tools is ugly, too -- and it is noticed by a lot more people. This problem is not limited to vmstat -- the network stack uses 32-bit counters in a lot of places where 32-bits has become very small. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of CambridgeReceived on Thu Jul 20 2006 - 16:09:01 UTC
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