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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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