Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:44:28 +0200 | From | Peter Surda <> | Subject | Re: Uptime timer-wrap |
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On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:16:52PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > I tried to simulate your observation by making a driver that > set the 'jiffies' count upon an 'open'. The idea was to get > the jiffies count to something close to wrap so I didn't have to > wait a long time. > > Anyway, I found that setting the jiffies count to more than a > few hundred counts into the future, causes the machine to halt > with no interrupts (no Capslock, no NumLock, no network ping, etc). I noticed I perhaps didn't describe the symptoms precisely. It didn't stop working permanently, the network was going up and down unpredictably, in intervals of about 5 to 20 minutes. Perhaps there was a pattern, but I hope you'll excuse me for mot measuring the exact times as the main point was to get it running, not to write a scientific report about it :-).
If it wasn't fixed by a reboot I'd say it was an odd hardware problem.
Bye,
Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <shurdeek@panorama.sth.ac.at>, ICQ 10236103, +436505122023
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