On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 04:09, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Florian Ernst wrote: > > > Hello Sebastiaan! > > > > At Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:50 Sebastiaan wrote: > > > <snip> > > > For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return day > > > information any more: > > > > > > $ uptime > > > 08:36:00 up 14:48, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.18, 0.16 > > > > <snip> > > > > I am running kernel 2.4.18 on a PowerMac. > > > > > > Any ideas what is going on here? > > > > Yep, "jiffies rollover", see > > > > http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=158 > > > > for further info. > > > > HTH, > > Flo > > > I already suspected something like this. Let's hope it's fixed in 2.6. > Sloppy bug though.
No, I disagree. When the kernel designers made the jiffie an unsigned long integer, the gcc compiler did not do 64 bit arithmetic very quickly. And something like that, on a 386 (when this was developed), needs to be *very* efficient. Thus, it's a reflection of reality, not a bug. http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20030223_206.html#1 -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
