Byte counters reset at ~4GB

[Bernd Walter]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:05:44PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 06:38:28PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > It seems that the byte counters (derived from netstat -nbi) reset at
> > around 4 GB. Is there no way around this? It would be nice to be able to
> > see an accurate display of totals. It just seems pointless to even have
> > this, as 4 GB is just not that much anymore. I know this is a 32bit
> > limitation of the variable, but that's just bad coding in my opinion (no
> > offence intended), I mean there must be some way around this.
> 
> I think in the past it's been pointed out changing to a 64-bit
> variable would slow down the code on non-64-bit architectures like the
> venerable i386.

And on 64 bit platforms it is already 64 bit.

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