From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 15 13:33:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E989537B41C for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:33:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6100 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2002 21:33:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Jan 2002 21:33:54 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3C449D56.696CBA9A@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:33:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: 64 bit counters again Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, bmilekic@technokratis.com, imp@village.org, Mats Lofkvist , Poul-Henning Kamp 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 On 15-Jan-02 Terry Lambert wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >THat's the main reason I sugested counting something else >> >instead of bytes. >> >> Terry, at this point I think we can conclude that this is not >> what the majority of people want. >> >> Now, please go away and stop wasting our time. > > Apparently you didn't realize that "suggested" is the past > tense of "suggest", and that I wasn't in the process of > suggesting it right then. > > PS: THanks for throwing away everything else and taking that > one sentence out of context; I'm sure you've clarified for > everyone that that was the incredibly mist important sentence > in the posting to which you are replying, instead of just a > side note in response to Mats statement. FWIW, I agree that doing 64-bit counters on IA32 is more of a pain than its worth, so I think it's not quite the Terry vs. the world some people would like to believe. Terry is trying to get people to use solutions that scale. Bumping the size of the counter for bytes doesn't scale, it just postpones the problem a little. If you really want a 64-bit counter, go get an alpha or when 5.0 comes out an ultrasparc or ia64 box. > -- Terry -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message