On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:51:55AM +0000, Ton Hospel wrote:
> Resettable counters are evil.
Perhaps "evil" should be reserved to describe counters which automatically
reset as a side effect of being read.
> I really think cisco got this right: from the commandline interface
> you can reset counters, and watch them, the SNMP counters however just
> keep going and going and going independently from this.
Except for the IP accounting table? The 'checkpoint' operation copies and
*clears* the table ...
I don't really need snapshots, just hazard-free reads. It's quite
easy to work out deltas in userspace, but I'd hate for things to be
unnecessarily painful for multiple readers.
Mark.
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