The following reply was made to PR mod_status/1728; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "M.D.Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mod_status/1728: Possible Overflow in Mod_status statistics?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 17:28:58 -0700 (MST)

 On 24 Jan 1998, M.D.Parker wrote:
 
 > Here is an output from a mod_status report that is really wrong 
 > 
 >   Current Time: Fri Jan 23 16:01:33 1998
 >    Restart Time: Fri Jan 23 12:02:15 1998
 >    Server uptime: 3 hours 59 minutes 18 seconds
 >    Total accesses: 676023206 - Total Traffic: 18.3 GB
 >    CPU Usage: u1251.32 s4604.36 cu712.87 cs267.3 - 47.6% CPU load
 >    4.71e+04 requests/sec - 1.3 MB/second - 29 B/request
 
 What, you don't think your server can handle 40000 hits/sec?
 
 >    272 requests currently being processed, 183 idle servers
 > 
 > The total number of accesses is WAY above normal as well as the number of
 > requests/second.  What I saw an hour earlier was more like 53 requests/sec
 > with about 2-3GBytes.  I am reporting this without any more information but
 > somehow I am suspecting some sort of overflow in the fields used to record
 > the information.
 
 Mmm.  Totals get far higher than what you say yours should be without
 problems.  
 
 Are you running any third-party modules on the server?  You sure you don't
 have them in some odd loop or something? 
 
 

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