From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 14 10:10:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A974C37B445; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:09:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0303.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.48] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16QBYF-0003Nm-00; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:09:44 -0800 Message-ID: <3C431EE5.1CFF557B@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:09:41 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "James E. Housley" Cc: Thomas Hurst , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 64 bit counters again References: <3C41F3FD.4ECC8CD@mindspring.com> <20020113231459.GA30349@voi.aagh.net> <3C42390A.F9E9F533@mindspring.com> <3C42E899.CB21BD0A@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "James E. Housley" wrote: > Right now I am trying to do network usage on the overflows the 32 bit > counters in 60 120 seconds. That means the netstat values are useless, > mrtg and other programs that poll for results every 5 minutes or so are > useless. If I want to get good data I have to get the counts every 10 > seconds or so to get reasonable results. Actually, I was thinking that if what you are counting overflowed in such a short period of time, then you are counting the wrong thing. Instead of bytes, try counting K or frames, instead of frames, count packets, etc.. You still haven't told us exactly what counter is overflowing... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message