From owner-freebsd-net Mon Sep 9 10:21:24 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 9C65937B400 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overlord.e-gerbil.net (e-gerbil.net [64.186.142.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD9D43E65 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:21:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ras@e-gerbil.net) Received: by overlord.e-gerbil.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9CD0C15E47; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:21:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:21:19 -0400 From: Richard A Steenbergen To: Andre Oppermann Cc: Harti Brandt , Petr Holub , net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32 bit couters in netstat Message-ID: <20020909172119.GK53265@overlord.e-gerbil.net> References: <20020909181135.K30835-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> <3D7CCFEC.8719520F@pipeline.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D7CCFEC.8719520F@pipeline.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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, Sep 09, 2002 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > Make it a macro so everone can choose what fits best: > > if < I586 > make32bitcounters > else > make64bitaotmiccounters 32 bit counters simply roll over too quickly to be of any real use for anything other than a home or small office device, even when polled every 5 minutes. Not including 64 bit counters on modern software is remarkably short sighted and pretty darn inexcusable IMHO. But if you're going to include an option doing 32 bit only, I would suggest it not be some obscure and arbitrary. Can you just imagine the frustration of the poor person using the 486 when they're sitting around wondering why the counters are rolling over on this one machine but not another. -- Richard A Steenbergen http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message