Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:25:41AM -0600, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> 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. ;)
Also, if you're unlucky some drivers will be confused by the
wraparound. There's been a recent discussion about this on the kernel
mailing list.
--
Tim van Erven
tripudium@chello.nl
talerven@wins.uva.nl
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