Re: Proposed new sysctl MIB nodes

Jason R Thorpe <thorpej-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:22:44 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.os.bsd.api.general
Organization	Wasabi Systems, Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:21:44PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

 > > I'd like to propose new HW_PHYSPAGES and HW_USERPAGES MIB nodes that
 > > return the same information, but in a 32-bit page count, instead.  The
 > > implementation is left as an exercise to the reader.  I just want to get
 > > consensus on the names, so that I can tell the GCC people about it, and
 > > have it work on all the BSD platforms (as their current sysctl code does).
 > 
 > How about simply having a total memory count in quads instead? That
 > way we won't run out when we pass 2^48 or 49th bytes in 10 or 15
 > years.

Ok, a u_quad (page count) it is.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]>

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