inception review summary of PSARC/2009/364 - dlstat and flowstat

[Kais Belgaied]

Thanks Jim (and good to hear from you). I captured this issue as jdc-01 
in the issues file,
and Shri indicated off-line that he will answer and follow up on 
crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org.

    Kais.

On 06/24/09 12:09, James Carlson wrote:
> Kais Belgaied writes:
>   
>> - Multiple issues with reset stats:
>>   - The loss of information accumulated since boot time may hurt the
>>     diagnosability of problem with flows and links.
>>   - The action needs to be privileged.
>>   - suggestion: move the reset subcommand to {dl,flow}adm, with expected
>>     effect of resetting the state of the datalink/flow, which includes the
>>     usage statistics thereof.
>>     
>
> I suggest getting rid of "reset" altogether.  Besides being
> fundamentally incompatible with SNMP instrumentation, "reset" just
> isn't necessary or complete as long as you have decent delta-
> calculating tools.  (And I'd really rather have a good way of
> computing deltas -- especially as a non-privileged user -- than having
> an inaccessible way to nuke kernel counters.)
>
>