From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 20 21:51:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D88137B422 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=daf62544ee3d369696665c243b97b5fd) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14qpMx-0000Fi-00; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:51:39 -0600 Message-ID: <3AE111DB.BE02664D@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:51:39 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas M. Sommers" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top uptime! References: <20010421093009.M72002@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010420212338.Z41536@bsd.havk.org> <3AE0FADE.5801FF96@mail.ptd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Thomas M. Sommers" wrote: > > 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). Microseconds? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message