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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:14:16 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
To: "Brooks Davis" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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Subject: Re: Byte counters reset at ~4GB
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Brooks Davis said:
>
> Please read the archives of freebsd-net.  This has been discussed
> many times.  There are valid reasons for this, particularly the fact
> that 64-bit counters are much more expensive to update on 32-bit
> architectures.  API breakage is also a problem.  We're aware that 2^32
> is way to small a limit for modern network counters, but fixing it isn't
> trivial on 32-bit hardware.

Ok then, thats too bad. Sorry for the noise.