From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 20 19:23:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB7F37B424 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@havk.org) Received: from bsd.havk.org (user-24-214-92-252.knology.net [24.214.92.252]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3L2Ne527742; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:23:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bsd.havk.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 299E21A7D8; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:23:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:23:38 -0500 From: Steve Price To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top uptime! Message-ID: <20010420212338.Z41536@bsd.havk.org> References: <20010421093009.M72002@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from reed@reedmedia.net on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:38:21PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:38:21PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > I ran Linux 2.0.36 for 497 days. It had some known 497-day bug (jiffy > > > problem?) that crashed it with a kernel panic. > > > > Is it possible that this bug was fixed less than 595 days ago? That > > seems to be the only sensible explanation I can find for Linux' > > complete absence from this list. This topic came up just yesterday on a Linux user's group list that I'm listen in on here in town. A guy who I believe to be very knowlegable about Linux (especially RedHat, he even willingly bought a red fedorra) said that the bug that caused Linux to crash after 497.1 days was fixed quite some time ago. However the uptime counter (cat /proc/uptime) is counted in seconds in a 32bit variable. So it isn't possible for a Linux box to show more than 497 days of uptime because the uptime rolls over then. FWIW. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message