From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 3 1: 4:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6290737B401 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 01:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0367A43EB2 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 01:04:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@uptime.org.uk) Received: from pc117.deh.man.ac.uk ([130.88.189.117] helo=localhost) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18UNku-000NGx-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:04:40 +0000 Received: from lucid.intranet ([10.0.0.7]) by localhost with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18UNkt-0006hl-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:04:39 +0000 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:04:40 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: Stephen Hildrey Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability To: FreeBSD Stable Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: INLINE References: <20030103195010.D73262-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20030103195010.D73262-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> X-Mailer: Mahogany 0.64.2 'Sparc', running under Windows NT 5.1 (build 2600, Service Pack 1) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18UNku-000NGx-00*6pZHlnQJbO6* Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:51:14 +1100 (EST) Andrew wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > > Strange, I do not see this behaviour on one of our Solaris boxes: > > > > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.5.1 Generic May 1996 > > bash-2.00# uptime > > 9:05am up 1102 day(s), 15:42, 1 user, load average: 0.07, > 0.02, 0.02 > > I think they mean that the uptime, as detected by netcraft, rolls > over. Linux uptimes do indeed rollover after 497 days due to the uptime being stored as a 32bit number of jiffies (IIRC). The maths is something like: a jiffy is 1/100th of a second, so ((2^32)/100)/(24*60*60) = 497. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message