On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Farkas Levente <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/06/2012 05:18 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There is a kernel bug that causes a system crash when the uptime goes >> over 208.5 days. According to available info, the patch [1] is now in >> kernel 3.1.5. RHEL 6 is apparently affected (timer.h has the buggy >> code). I was not able to find a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com that >> is seemingly related to this bug but my search is not extensive. >> >> Is there anyone running the RHEL-6 system long enough to see this bug? > > 2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.x86_64 > # uptime > 17:40:32 up 219 days, 20:29, 1 user, load average: 1.36, 0.57, 0.46 > > what's the problem?
According to the info I have seen, not all systems will see the bug. For example, due to the nature of the bug, virtual machines are not affected. I also read that only the Intel CPU (Pentium4 or newer) is relevant. By the way why 208.5 days? 2^54 / ( 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 ) = 208.499983 days Akemi _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
