Re: Byte counters reset at ~4GB

From: Mike Jakubik (mikej_at_rogers.com)
Date: 03/16/04

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    Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:48:21 -0500 (EST)
To: "Max Laier" <max@love2party.net>

    Max Laier said:

    > Sure, you measure it ;) ... no, of course it is more expensive to update a
    > 64bit counter on a 32bit arch, but the key (once again) is descision:
    > While
    > (almost) all of the pf counters are 64bit types you can configure it not
    > to
    > use the loginterface or whatsoever more. So it's up to you: You need 64bit
    > counters? You shall have them! You need *fast* 64bit counters? AMD sells
    > nice processors (they say)! ... you get the idea.

    Got it. In just curious though... realistically, how big of an impact on
    performance is this on a modern CPU? Is it not simply the original 32bit
    calculation x 2?
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