Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:46:20 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: jiffies rollover, uptime etc. |
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, george anzinger wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ben Greear wrote:
> > > Does this problem still exist on 64-bit machines? > > > > Absolutely. But not as often ;-) > > Actually you will have a VERY hard time getting it to roll over. Issues > of your life time, not to mention the hardware's life time. 64 bits > makes a VERY large number and you are counting in 427 day increments. > Remember we have been counting seconds since 1970 in 32 bits and > rollover is still, most likely, beyond the capability of any machine > running today to get to. Now consider counting in 427 day increments > instead of seconds.
Um, note the odd characters appended to my sentence ";-)" which means "not serious here, look for joke, sarcasm, over or understatement.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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