Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:33:45 +0100 | From | Kurt Roeckx <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:20:44PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > 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.
Not to mention that it takes alot more clocks to setup and return from the interupt.
Kurt
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