RE: uptime limit
Thanks all again. And yes, it has an older 2.4.27-2-386 kernel.
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De: Matus UHLAR - fantomas [mailto:uhlar@fantomas.sk]
Enviado el: Jueves, 19 de Febrero de 2009 11:49 a.m.
Para: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Asunto: Re: uptime limit
On 19.02.09 11:38, Paa.listas wrote:
> I have a Server running since 2007, but when I run uptime it's tells
> me the system was running for only 88 days.. There are any limits in the
> uptime utility?
I think it rotates after some ~497 days, but only with older (2.4?) kernels
on
32-bit systems. Basically it happens when 32-bit counter of timer tick
(100Hz) overflows:
(2^32-1)/60/60/24/100
497.10
> $ ls -l dmesg
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13653 2007-07-14 07:27 dmesg
>
>
>
> $ uptime
>
> 11:27:16 up 88 days, 23:51, 1 user, load average: 0.51, 0.25, 0.20
It's nearly 89 days... 497+89 = 586.
% date -d '586 days ago'
Sat Jul 14 15:48:53 CEST 2007
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