Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:46:15 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:46:03PM +1100, Neale Banks wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > and received a nasty surprise. The uptime, which had been 496+ days > > > on Friday, was back down to a few hours. I was ready to lart somebody > > > with great vigor when I realized the uptime counter had simply wrapped > > > around. > > > > > > So, I thought to myself, at least the 2.4 kernels on our new boxes won't > > > > It wraps at 496 days. The drivers are aware of it and dont crash the box > > You mean there was a time when uptime>496days would crash a system? > > If so, approximtely when did that get fixed? > > (I'm thinking back to an as yet unexplained crash of a 2.0.38 system at > ~496days uptime :-( ) >
AFAIK, the system didn't crash, but the uptime counter went down to zero. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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