Subject: Re: 64K problems? (fwd)
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 07/19/1999 10:29:52
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 09:17:44AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> This was discussed a few weeks ago on tech-net. Zdenek Salvet suggested to
> increase if_data.ifi_obytes and if_data.ifi_ibytes to 64bit as well.
> There may be other things worth increasing at the same time.
Hmm. If these are the byte counters for network interfaces, I think I
submitted a PR some 5 years ago, but nothing ever happened ;)
A certain news server receives about 27 GB of articles every day and the
byte counters wrap several times a day.. :-/
-jm