Re: [hobbit] TCP/IP stats (bits/s) limited to 100M

[henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:42:14AM +0200, Beau Olivier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this looks like tcp-data going arround the 32bit counter problem...
> are your counters 32 bit ? could you give us a copy of them ?

The RRD files are created as "DERIVE" datatypes with a minimum value of
0, which should handle 32/64-bit counter overflows automatically.
(See the rrdcreate man-page).

Note that Hobbit never does any calculations on these values, it passes
them directly (as strings) to the RRDtool functions. 


Regards,
Henrik