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SubjectRe: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?
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Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2002 23:34 +0200, bert hubert wrote:
>>
>> Your uptime wraps to zero after 49 days. I think 'top' gets confused.

> Trivially fixed with the existing 64-bit jiffies patches. As it is,
> your uptime wraps to zero after 472 days or something like that if you
> don't have the 64-bit jiffies patch, which is totally in the realm of
> possibility for Linux servers.

Why are we still measuring uptime using the tick variable? Ticks != time.
Surely we should be recording the boot time somewhere (probably on a
file system), and then comparing that with the current time?
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