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Subjectplease merge 64-bit jiffy patches. Was Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:24:26PM +0000, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> Trivially fixed with the existing 64-bit jiffies patches. As it is,
> your uptime wraps to zero after 472 days or something like that if you
> don't have the 64-bit jiffies patch, which is totally in the realm of
> possibility for Linux servers.

I feel your pain

4:26am up 482 days, 10:33, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00

On a very remote server.

So can we please merge the 64-bit jiffies patches? I sometimes think that
that is the main reason why alpha DOES have HZ=1024 - the jiffies there
don't wrap in an embarrassing way within two months :-)

Regards,

bert

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