Messages in this thread |  | | From | "J. Dow" <> | Subject | Re: rocketport pci question... it stopped working after 250 days uptime | Date | Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:19:46 -0800 |
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From: "Federico Grau" <donfede@casagrau.org>
> We have several linux boxes useing 8 port rocketport pci multiport serial > cards. Earlier last week 3 of them stopped working within a 24 hour period. > These three boxes had similar uptimes (since their last kernel rebuild); 249 > days, 248 days, 250 days. Comparing the logs of each box, we saw that each > box's rocketport stopped working after aproximately 248 days 16 hours uptime.
If it was 248 days 13 hours 13 minutes 56.48 seconds this represents a 32 bit counter on a 5ms clock overflowing. I'd look for that in the RocketPort code. Although I remember Jeff remarking about something else failing at about the same uptime.
{^_^} Joanne Dow, jdow@earthlink.net
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