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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:31:15 -0400
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
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On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 05:19:10PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, 12:39+0900, Rob wrote:
> > By accident I happen to come across this remarkable limit of
> > uptime registration for FreeBSD systems. After 497 days, the
> > timer jumps to zero again.
> >
> > 497 days is less than a 1.5 years !
> >
> > Has this been fixed in newer versions of FreeBSD (stable and/or
> > current) ? Or is there a hardware limitation (CPU?) that does
> > not allow this?
> >
> > Just wondering.
> 
> $ uptime
>  5:18ÐÐ  up 498 days,  6:13, 5 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.03, 0.06
> $ uname -r
> 4.4-RELEASE

% uptime
 7:25AM  up 932 days,  3:48, 1 user, load averages: 0.47, 0.30, 0.23
% uname -r
4.4-STABLE
%

That said, I'd love to know what limit it was you (original poster)
saw.  Maybe something has crept in between 4.4 and now?

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						Ken Smith
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