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On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 22:59 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> If you're reading the counters yourself, be aware that they're 32-bit and
> will wrap at some point, so you need to be able to cater for that.
>
You just set me wondering, now I have a 64 bit workstation....
br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:05:c3:a1:b7
inet addr:10.181.0.131 Bcast:10.181.7.255 Mask:255.255.248.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:5ff:fec3:a1b7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:46359241 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23601903 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:55191207739 (55.1 GB) TX bytes:2031853646 (2.0 GB)
Hurrah! No wrapping at 4GB anymore!
On the downside my Pidgin instance was using ~12G of virtual memory the
other day. (1.1G resident)
Apologies for generally babbling and not adding anything useful :-)
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