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Old 22nd October 2008
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Not completely sure about OpenBSD, but the FreeBSD kernel uses 32-bit ints for keeping stats like this. Wouldn't be surprised if OpenBSD did something similar. As such, the counters will wrap around at some point. Not exactly random.
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