Robert Watson wrote: > 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. I see. That's unfortunate. :-( However, byte counters and packet counters in IPFW and IPF (and probably PF, but I haven't verified) are already 64bit. So there _are_ at least a few places where the problem does not exist. # ipfw show 65535 26326861627 25395554002225 allow ip from any to any # uname -m i386 Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "[...] one observation we can make here is that Python makes an excellent pseudocoding language, with the wonderful attribute that it can actually be executed." -- Bruce EckelReceived on Thu Jul 20 2006 - 16:26:07 UTC
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