Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:14:43 +0100 | From | Lech Szychowski <> | Subject | Re: jiffies wraparound |
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> on Intel machines the jiffies count will wrap sometime after a year of > uptime (4 billion / 100 seconds). It also mentioned that weird stuff may > happen at this time (as you may expect, if anyone is making poor > assumptions about jiffies). Has anyone ever edited the kernel so that > jiffies starts at 0xFFF00000 at boot to see what happens, and fix any > ensuing problems?
I've got one machine that's been up and running since Sep 24, 1996. That's two wraps already; haven't seen any strange things happening.
-- Leszek.
-- lech7@pse.pl 2:480/33.7 -- REAL programmers use INTEGERS -- -- speaking just for myself...
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