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- From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
- Subject: Re: ** XMETER ** for Ultrix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.142740.28074@datum.nyo.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Nov18.201142.19004@mlb.semi.harris.com> <1992Nov19.081451.18478@reed.edu> <1encp8INNmh7@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:27:40 GMT
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- In article <1encp8INNmh7@agate.berkeley.edu>, stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) writes:
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- |>If you look at /usr/include/rpcsvc/rstat.h you'll see see that DK_NDRIVE
- |>is taken from sys/dk.h instead of being fixed at 4 (as in the Sun version).
- |>This causes the protocol to become incompatible.
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- This is a problem with the rstat protocol itself. IMHO, it is only a cute
- toy, since fixing DK_NDRIVE at 4 restricts it to machines having 4 or fewer
- disk drives. A real fix would be to rewrite the entire protocol to be more
- realistic and robust.
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- Frank
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