On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:20:03PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Due to a bug with "w", or the kernel, or whatever, which nobody seems to
> want to fix, the system uptime wraps around to 0 days after 400-and-someodd
> days. That's why I circled the login/idle time on the screenshot. :-)
The jiffies counter in the kernel rolls over at approximately 497
days uptime on 32-bit platforms.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bc -q
2^32/100/60/60/24
497
(A jiffy is 1/100 of a second).
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