[Bro] time machine filesize issue

Martin Holste mcholste at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 20:54:06 PDT 2010


Further testing shows that filesize > 2000m (including 2g for some
reason) leads to tm not rolling the file ever.

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Vern Paxson <vern at icir.org> wrote:
>> With filesize set at exactly 280g (279g does not produce the problem)
>> tm will create one disk fifo file per packet in the workdir for each
>> evicted packet with a disk setting of 1000g.  I am only using one
>> default class for "all."
>
> That sounds like something is wrapping and going negative at the 2^38 barrier.
>
>                Vern
>




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