Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:20:44 -0600 | From | Charles Cazabon <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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Richard B. Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote: > > That's 6 extra clocks every Hz or 600 clocks per second. By the time > you've reached the 497.1 days, you have wasted.... 0xffffffff/6 = > 715,827,882 CPU clocks just so 'uptime' is correct? I don't think > so. I'd reboot.
For proportion: 716 million CPU clocks, on an "average" PC today is less than one second of CPU time. Over the course of 497 days, that's not much overhead at all.
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