From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 14 11:49:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FF137B400; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:49:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0325.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.70] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16QD7B-0005cB-00; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:49:54 -0800 Message-ID: <3C43365F.6A75B37B@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:49:51 -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> <3C431EE5.1CFF557B@mindspring.com> <3C4335BA.63828FD0@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: > > 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... > > Bytes out is overflowing on a nice new DG box. DG = Data General? David Greenman? 8-) I think you should use a modular counter. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message