On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:11:36 +0800, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the machines we help support had an uptime record of about 550 > days, IIRC. SLES 7 on IBM xSeries hardware. Too bad there was a > firmware bug that got tickled more than a year and a half after we > deployed it and we needed to reboot and flash the BIOS.
Just curious Dido, but did your machine do a jiffies/uptime rollover? IIRC, the Linux kernel rolls over at >~500 days because of the size of the jiffies counter (32 bits). I've never seen a machine's uptime rollover before. Has anyone here encountered *two* rollovers yet? (i.e. +~1000 days uptime?) -- JM Ibanez - A million monkeys can't go wrong... http://www.livejournal.com/~jmibanez/ http://www.mycgiserver.com/~butiki/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
