From owner-freebsd-net Mon Sep 9 8:30:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93BE37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anor.ics.muni.cz (anor.ics.muni.cz [147.251.4.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D7743E6A for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hopet@ics.muni.cz) Received: from dior.ics.muni.cz (dior.ics.muni.cz [147.251.6.10]) by anor.ics.muni.cz (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g89FUr9Q013878; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:30:53 +0200 Received: from kloboucek (root@localhost) (authenticated as hopet with LOGIN) by dior.ics.muni.cz (8.10.1/8.10.0.Beta12) with ESMTP id g89FUlc14790; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:30:47 +0200 (MEST) From: "Petr Holub" To: "Andre Oppermann" Cc: Subject: RE: 32 bit couters in netstat Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:31:08 +0200 Message-ID: <004601c25815$eb9715e0$27e86cc2@kloboucek> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 In-Reply-To: <3D7CBB8A.B9F426C6@pipeline.ch> X-Muni-Virus-Test: Clean Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I've just found that netstat in FreeBSD 4.4 has just 32 bit couters > > (compared to 64 bit counters in NetBSD), at least for Ibytes and Obytes. > > Is there any improvement in this respect in -STABLE or in -CURRENT? > > No because certain people argue that having a 64 bit counter slows > down the machine to the level of a 386SX-16 and who needs large > counters anyway... I don't think NetBSD is slow that way ;o))). Petr ================================================================ Petr Holub CESNET z.s.p.o. Supercomputing Center Brno Zikova 4 Institute of Compt. Science 160 00 Praha 6, CZ Masaryk University Czech Republic Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno, CZ e-mail: Petr.Holub@cesnet.cz phone: +420-5-41512213 e-mail: hopet@ics.muni.cz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message