Re: Debian uptime 497 days
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:54, csj wrote:
> At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:23:28 -0500,
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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 ;-).
>
> [...]
man bc
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