Re: 497 days uptime = 0 days uptime ?(uptime rolloveR)

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Dave Sherohman said:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:15:14PM -0700, nate wrote:
>> I had read originally that this "bug" occured mostly in
>> SMP systems, but I guess UP systems get there once the uptime
>> gets high enough
>
> The reason it's seen mostly in SMP systems is that it rolls over
> after 497 / (# of CPUs) days and 100- to 200-day uptimes are a lot more
> common than 500 days.

i suspected that to be it, but stranger still, in march of this
year I had a dual processor server shutdown(debian 2.2, 2.2.19 kernel)
it had about a little over 400 days uptime ..and no rollover..

nate