From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 16:37:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA25416 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:37:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA25409 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id QAA27817; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:37:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610102337.QAA27817@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Robert Watson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netstat -nbi display In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Oct 1996 18:36:30 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:37:54 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Ibytes >Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll >ed0 1500 00.00.c0.77.bb.a8 2412232 1 280810240 >2496396 6 -2140892732 108368 >ed0 1500 128.2 128.2.89.13 2412232 1 280810240 >2496396 6 -2140892732 108368 >lo0 16384 115334 0 15639183 >115334 0 15639183 0 >lo0 16384 127 127.0.0.1 115334 0 15639183 >115334 0 15639183 0 > >As may not be apparent from the output, my output byte counter wraps >around about every day or two when running a reasonable-size website. Is >there any way I can get it to *not* wrap and as such give a reasonable >display of network use? Only once a day or two? :-) It wraps about once an hour on wcarchive. :-) The only way to fix this is to increase the size of the stats to 64bit. I think this has been proposed before, but noone has gone and done it. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project