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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