From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 20 20:15: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net (smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF7F537B43F for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:14:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tms2@mail.ptd.net) Received: (qmail 20533 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2001 02:12:06 -0000 Received: from mail1.ha-net.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([207.44.96.65]) (envelope-sender ) by smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Apr 2001 02:12:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 4536 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2001 03:14:59 -0000 Received: from du36.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([204.186.33.36]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Apr 2001 03:14:59 -0000 Message-ID: <3AE0FADE.5801FF96@mail.ptd.net> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:13:34 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top uptime! References: <20010421093009.M72002@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010420212338.Z41536@bsd.havk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Price wrote: > >. 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. But 497 days is only about 4.3e7 seconds, whereas 32 bits can count about 2e9 seconds (signed). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message