fair@clock.org (Erik E. Fair  , Timekeeper) writes:

>Has anyone ever proposed sticking #ifdef's around the metering code
>to be able to turn it off for even more efficiency?

I'd guess so.

>Does one or more of the SNMP MIBs define some of these counters to
>be only 32 bits?

Uhm, by default *all* SNMP counters are 32 bits.

Since you have to have the code to detect counter overflow anyway, I'm not
sure this buys you much.
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