Re: Proposed new sysctl MIB nodes

[ Sorry to chime in late ]

Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> 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.

A quad for page count or total bytes?

Note also that the sysctl interface is signed quads only.

Simon.
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