Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:29:17 -0500 (EST) | From | Adam <> | 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.
Which kernel would be that? That's over 1000 days?
I think I already lost console on my box, but since I hadn't been using it in favor of ssh and serial console it is not a big deal.
I'm also getting messages like this one below. I brought it down to single user mode, remounted hdd ro and fscked few months back. However, it but it did not make them to go away.
Mar 12 22:49:54 eax kernel: VFS: Close: file count is 0
Past this the box is okay
box adam % uname -a Linux box 2.0.36 #5 Sat Oct 31 02:15:10 EST 1998 i586 unknown box adam % uptime 11:24pm up 488 days, 10:15, 16 users, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.01
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