Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:22:01 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: jiffies rollover, uptime etc. |
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Many will be grateful if this finally allows the correct uptime to be generated after 497 days - my busy mail/dns servers now have 611 days uptime, but to outsiders it appears they only have 114 days uptime, and there are bizarre items in the process table, e.g. programs that were apparently started in the year 2003...
Joe
Tim Schmielau wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Oliver Hillmann wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>yes, I know this is defenitely no new issue (maybe its none to you >>anyway), since I found posts about this dating from 1998: the >>jiffies counter rolls over after approx. 497 days uptime, which >>causes the uptime to roll over as well, and seems to cause some >>other irretation in the system itself (my pc speaker starting >>beeping constantely...) >> > >See >http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2001-Week-47/0736.html >for a patch. >I intend to submit this for 2.4.19pre after some more testing and >feedback. > >Also note that several patches for jiffies rollover bugs have gone into >2.4.18pre, maybe one of them fixes the speaker driver. > >Tim > >- >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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