4GB limit with netstat
Michal Mertl
mime at traveller.cz
Sun May 25 12:17:24 PDT 2003
> I've forgotten the orginaly discussion last year - just how expensive
> is it again to do a locked 64bit update on x86? If it is less than say
> 8x the time to do a 32bit increment, then we should probably just bite
> the bullet and do it for the few counters where it makes sense (input
> and output bytes and packets).
The price for locked 64bit update was really high. I can't find my
measurements from that time, but it was more on the scale of 100 times
more expensive.
--
Michal Mertl
mime at traveller.cz
More information about the freebsd-stable
mailing list