Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:56:17 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: dg@Root.COM Cc: robert@fledge.watson.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netstat -nbi display Message-ID: <199610111256.AA143178577@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <199610102337.QAA27817@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Oct 10, 96 04:37:54 pm
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E-mail message from David Greenman contained: > > >Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Ibytes > >Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll > >ed0 1500 <Link>00.00.c0.77.bb.a8 2412232 1 280810240 > >2496396 6 -2140892732 108368 > >ed0 1500 128.2 128.2.89.13 2412232 1 280810240 > >2496396 6 -2140892732 108368 > >lo0 16384 <Link> 115334 0 15639183 > >115334 0 15639183 0 > >lo0 16384 127 127.0.0.1 115334 0 15639183 > >115334 0 15639183 0 > > > >As may not be apparent from the output, my output byte counter wraps > >around about every day or two when running a reasonable-size website. Is > >there any way I can get it to *not* wrap and as such give a reasonable > >display of network use? > > Only once a day or two? :-) It wraps about once an hour on wcarchive. :-) > The only way to fix this is to increase the size of the stats to 64bit. I > think this has been proposed before, but noone has gone and done it. The other way is to have a frequently run statistics gathering program which notices the wraparound and unwraps it in the stats output/database. /Marino > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project >
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