Today at 08:39, David Johnson wrote:
> For my next question: I'm wondering how uptime keeps track of how
> long the server has been running. The reason I ask is that I have a
> couple of ML10 boxes running in a production environment on VMWare ESX
> servers. These servers never REALLY know how long they have been up.
> They always report times that are different from reality (usually
> shorter than actual uptime) when I know that they have not rebooted (a
> check of the logs will verify).
> Certainly not a major problem, but I'm curious...
As far as I know, /proc/uptime is the place where the uptime is kept.
If you cat /proc/uptime repeatedly you can see that it's a running
timer. The program /usr/bin/uptime just reads /proc/uptime, converting
it to a human readable format.
I have no idea why your ML10 boxes don't keep accurate uptimes.
Maybe someone else can offer an idea.
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