It's not. Quickest wrappers are network interface byte
counters. Do have some real value they should be 64 bits wide.
:>had? Is there some low priority job scheduler in the kernel to do this
:>kind of thing (weekly or so tasks which belong in kernel space)?
Could idle task do this?
:>We can be fairly certain that the stats won't wrap within a week, or we
Depends on counter. 4 GB of network traffic isn't that much at
all (my home box has about 0.5 GB network traffic daily and it
mostly consists of running X apps over network).
Theoretically, it takes only 344 seconds to push over 4 GB stuff
out to 100 Mb/s ethernet.
Also, IDE devices tend to generate huge amounts of interrupts on
busy machine.
:>for a more active Ultrix box). If I had a Linux box like that, I'd like an
:>accurate uptime report (but again, it's not vital, just nice).
I'd like to see accurate counters especially for network traffic.
But, as we're now in code-freeze, I suppose 64-bit counters will
be one of the new features in 2.3.x series.
Juha
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