Re: unsigned/64bit counters?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:10:45 +0100

tor 2006-12-28 klockan 09:33 -0300 skrev Gonzalo Arana:

> Having negative values for a counter does not seem right to me.

None of the counters is negative in SNMP. All exposed as Counter32 which
is unsigned 0 -> 2^32-1 where it wraps around.

> > I'm fine with making the counter a long internally if that helps, but I
> > just don't see the point of making it a 64-bit SNMP counter.
>
> It was just a thought anyway.

Hmm.. the select_loops counter isn't even in the MIB it seems.. We
should export this and the other syscall counters somewhere..

Regards
Henrik

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