Re: no days in uptime
Hello Sebastiaan!
At Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:50 Sebastiaan wrote:
> I have encountered a strange problem in my uptime status. I have a
> computer running for over 500 days and a script that displays the
> uptime in days with MRTG.
>
> For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return day
> information any more:
>
> $ uptime
> 08:36:00 up 14:48, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.18, 0.16
>
> and
>
> $ cat /proc/uptime
> 53341.82 17513797.50
>
>
> I am sure of 2 things:
> - it wasn't me (I was on vacation and I don't have auto-update
> scripts running)
> - the computer doesn't reboot daily, since /tmp isn't cleaned
>
> I am running kernel 2.4.18 on a PowerMac.
>
> Any ideas what is going on here?
Yep, "jiffies rollover", see
http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=158
for further info.
HTH,
Flo
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