Re: no days in uptime

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@EWI.TUDelft.NL>]

Hi,

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Florian Ernst wrote:

> Hello Sebastiaan!
>
> At Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:50 Sebastiaan wrote:
>
<snip>
> > 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
> >
<snip>

> > 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
>
I already suspected something like this. Let's hope it's fixed in 2.6.
Sloppy bug though.

Thanks!
Sebastiaan


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