Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 17:28:38 +1000 From: John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> To: Michael Slater <mikey@iexpress.net.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uptime Message-ID: <35248FA6.DCE896D6@scitec.com.au> References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980403144605.11057A-100000@atlas.iexpress.net.au>
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In the Win32 help for GetTickCount()...
| The elapsed time is stored as a DWORD value. Therefore, the time will
| wrap around to zero if Windows is run continuously for 49.7 days.
My guess is that the NT designers knew something when deciding to
use a type that would wrap after 49.7 days.
Michael Slater wrote:
> Hi,
> just logged into a machine i use for nothing but Secondary DNS and
> mail exchange, and noticed something really suprising.
>
> 2:39PM up 378 days, 2:37, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> ^^^
> The machine was/is so reliable, i almost forgot about it :)
>
> This is with 2.1.7-RELEASE on a Pentium 100 32 mb ram
>
> Like to see NT touch that.
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