From owner-freebsd-net Mon Sep 9 8:35:39 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 4902B37B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:35:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (mailhub.fokus.gmd.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F83643E6A for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.gmd.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100]) by mailhub.fokus.gmd.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g89FZWh07007; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:35:32 +0200 (MEST) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:35:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt To: Petr Holub Cc: Andre Oppermann , Subject: RE: 32 bit couters in netstat In-Reply-To: <004601c25815$eb9715e0$27e86cc2@kloboucek> Message-ID: <20020909173330.F30835-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Petr Holub wrote: PH>> > I've just found that netstat in FreeBSD 4.4 has just 32 bit couters PH>> > (compared to 64 bit counters in NetBSD), at least for Ibytes and Obytes. PH>> > Is there any improvement in this respect in -STABLE or in -CURRENT? PH>> PH>> No because certain people argue that having a 64 bit counter slows PH>> down the machine to the level of a 386SX-16 and who needs large PH>> counters anyway... PH> PH>I don't think NetBSD is slow that way ;o))). If you search the archives you will find the arguments. As far as I remember the problem is to do the counter update atomically correct. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.gmd.de, brandt@fokus.fhg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message