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Re: Debian uptime 497 days



At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:23:28 -0500,
Ron Johnson wrote:

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> Not a bug, but the limitation of 32-bit integers.  The kernel
> "ticker" has a resolution of 1/100th of a second.  Thus, a
> little math will show you that it takes 497 days, 2 hours, 27
> minutes and 53 seconds worth of 1/100th of a second ticks to
> reach 2^32.

That's a whole lot of math to me (without a calculator ;-).

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