On 6/21/05, Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I swear this is not just me taking the opportunity to show off that I have
> a
> machine that has been up so long, but I am just curious. Has the "bug" of the
> uptime returning to zero been fixed ?
> I am currently at 425 days for one of my machines, and I am preparing to
> rebuilt it with a new OS. It won't likely make it to the roll-over if it has
> not been fixed. I plan to rebuild this week. But I am curious if uptime can
> now
> go to 498 days and beyond.
>
> I believe the limit is something like 497 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes and 53
> seconds. I don't think it's fixed in my kernel (2.4.x), but is it in 2.6 ?
>
I presume you are referring to the fact that a 32-bit counter running
at 100HZ rolls over in 2^32/100 seconds. Which is approximately
497.10 days. Actually, I calculate the same numbers you do, but get
52.96 seconds for the least significant part.
carl
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