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. Kris
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