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Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?



On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:18:33AM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:

> > > I think the uptime counter counts up to 497 days, and then it
> > > starts all over again. So currently we would not have any reports
> > > positively documenting more than 497 days of uptime.
> > > I read somewhere that the time is counted in "jiffies" where one
> > 
> > i believe that bug was fixed in linux a few years ago.
> > 
> > theres no longer a 497 day limit ..
> 
> could someone please tell me for sure? i'm at 470 right now... :-)

Since it wasn't fixed 470 days ago, I think your counter's going to
overflow. ;)

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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