Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:15:08 +0200 | From | Ville Herva <> | Subject | Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:46:15PM -0800, you [Mike Fedyk] claimed: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:46:03PM +1100, Neale Banks wrote: > > > > You mean there was a time when uptime>496days would crash a system? > > > > If so, approximtely when did that get fixed? > > > > (I'm thinking back to an as yet unexplained crash of a 2.0.38 system at > > ~496days uptime :-( ) > > AFAIK, the system didn't crash, but the uptime counter went down to zero.
Oh yes, sometimes 2.0 kernel would crash at 497.1 days¹. I guess it depends on what you were doing at the time and what drivers and options you were using. I think most of the jiffies wraparound bugs were cleaned at the 2.1.x time (so I have been told.)
(I've experienced one such crash, I'm not sure whether it was 2.0.36 or 2.0.38.)
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¹) it is 497.10 days or 2^32 seconds, not 496 days. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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