Messages in this thread | | | From | "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <> | Subject | Re: uptime reset after about 45 days | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:34:03 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310310005090.11473-100000@gaia.cela.pl>, Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@cela.pl> wrote: >> After about 45 days or so, my uptime was reset. My idle time is correct. >> >> $ cat /proc/uptime >> 94245.37 3686026.54 >> >> $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 >> (root@dpb2.resnet.calvin.edu) (gcc version 3.2.2) #6 SMP Thu Apr 17 >> 14:11:34 EDT 2003 > >Uptime is stored in jiffies which is 32bit on your arch, which results in >an overflow after 2^32 clock ticks. TTTicks were 100 HZ till recently >(overflow after 470 or so days) now, they're 1000 -> overflows after 45 >days. Doesn't wreck anything except for uptime display - known problem,
No, that's only on 2.6, and it has been fixed in 2.6 too. The 2.4 32 bits kernels run with HZ=100.
Sounds like the gentoo-kernel has just upped HZ to 1000 without fixing these problems properly. That's .. disappointing.
Mike.
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