Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 00:20:16 -0800 | From | george anzinger <> | Subject | Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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J Sloan wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > and received a nasty surprise. The uptime, which had been 496+ days > > > on Friday, was back down to a few hours. I was ready to lart somebody > > > with great vigor when I realized the uptime counter had simply wrapped > > > around. > > > > > > So, I thought to myself, at least the 2.4 kernels on our new boxes won't > > > > It wraps at 496 days. The drivers are aware of it and dont crash the box > > Yes, and these boxes are still running fine - other > than showing some processes that were started > in the year 2003... but DAMN, what an eyesore - > uptime ruined as far as anybody can tell, times > and dates no longer making any sense. > > So, is there an implicit Linux policy to upgrade > the distro, or at least the kernel, every 496 days > whether it needs it or not?
Time for a plug for the High-res-timers project. We have expanded jiffies to 64 bits. It can be read as the CLOCK_MONOTONIC via the new POSIX timers interface (part of high-res-timers). Haven't fixed uptime yet, but hay, I got 496 days to do it :)
Find our latest patch here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
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