i386/125196: systat counter resets ever 4GB worth of data
Zbigniew Szalbot
z.szalbot at lc-words.com
Wed Jul 2 20:40:05 UTC 2008
>Number: 125196
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: systat counter resets ever 4GB worth of data
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 02 20:40:04 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Zbigniew Szalbot
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
SGM Lifewords
>Environment:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD relay.lc-words.com 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #1: Mon Jun 30 16:32:34 CEST 2008 zbyszek at relay.lc-words.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RELAY i386
>Description:
When I use systat -ifstat, the Total counter gets reset around every 4th GB worth of data. No matter what, the counter will never show more than 4GB.
/0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10
Load Average
Interface Traffic Peak Total
tun0 in 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 10.467 MB
out 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 436.847 MB
lo0 in 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 2.421 GB
out 0.000 KB/s 0.000 KB/s 2.421 GB
re0 in 1.592 KB/s 1.592 KB/s 1.489 GB
out 21.427 KB/s 21.427 KB/s 977.608 MB
A friend of mine tested it on amd64 machine, and it does not happen there. He then tested it on his i386 machine and the Total counter got reset, too. I am not an expert but it seems like a bug.
>How-To-Repeat:
Just watch out the output of systat -ifstat
>Fix:
Sorry, I'd love to but I am in no position to do that. Thanks in advance!
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