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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:16:12 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r252032 - head/sys/amd64/include
Message-ID:  <6616CD87-58F6-4D50-AA71-AEAF7FA7E0E4@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20130625130051.W1285@besplex.bde.org>
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On 25/06/2013, at 12:54, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> - run a daemon every few minutes to fetch all the counters, so that
>> the native-sized counters are in no danger of overflowing on systems
>> that don't run statistics programs often enough to fetch the counters
>> to actually use.
>=20
> There is at least 1 counter decrement (add -1) in tcp, so the native =
counters
> need to be signed.

You could convert decrements into an increment of a separate counter and =
then subtract that value from the others when collecting them all.

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