Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [timer] max timeout | Date | Fri, 25 May 2001 17:45:19 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Mark Frazer <mark@somanetworks.com> said:
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> The output of `find . -type f | xargs grep 'jiffies +'` would suggest > that there are a few latent bugs as jiffies grows to values near the > top of its range. I guess this hasn't turned up as 0x7fffffff / (100 * > 3600 * 24) = 248.55.
There were patches floating around a _long_ time ago (2.1-ish AFAIR) that allowed you to start your system at any jiffy. Many people checked out what happens on jiffie rollover then. Might be a good idea to do that again... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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