Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 1998 06:08:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: [patch] jiffies wraparound [Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft] |
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> > I guess it depends on your agenda. An OS that has to be rebooted every > > 490 days isnt a very good embedded system large or small. "Please remember > > to reboot your building airconditioning control system about next august" ;) > > > > View from on high noted, want me to take it off the list ? > > Some people are running kernel at a higher HZ which brings them much closer > to the danger zone.
good point. Especially soft-RT-people like the choice of HZ=1000, millisec-accuracy scheduling and timers. I remember someone even used 10000, to get 100 usec accuracy timers. Even a low-end PC can take HZ=10k. That one wraps jiffies every 4 days!
-- mingo
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