Re: sysUptime uses gettimeofday
Magnus Fromreide <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.net-snmp.user |
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:49:48PM +0530, Pushpa Thimmaiah wrote: > Hi All, > > I believed that sysUpTime is counter that increments every seconds. But In > net-snmp code , > sysUpTime being calculated as difference between 'snmpd-starttime' and > 'current time' . > > I would like to know reason for sysUpTime been calculated as difference in > time instead of incremental-counter. > Is there any constraints ? sysUpTime is expressed in centiseconds. It is assumed that most snmp daemons ain't polled 100 times/s so doing it with increments would be inefficient as well as bad for accurancy. /MF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-users mailing list [email protected] Please see the following page to unsubscribe or change other options: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-users