On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 03:59:34PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Sunday, April 13, 2003 at 20:17:53 (+0200), Manuel Bouyer wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/ifconfig
> >
> > it's not as convenient as zeroing the counters. You can come 2 hours, or a
> > day after zeroing them and see how they moved.
> 
> Well if you're going to wait that long, and if you're going to sample by
> eye at random times, then you really want to have some way to remember
> when exactly it was you started counting, no?
> 
> Wouldn't it be just as easy to write a little script which could record
> the starting values and then show you the column deltas on demand?  This

Of course we can build tools to do the same things. I'm not saying the
OS can't work without this feature, I'm just saying it can be convenient.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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