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Date:      Tue, 09 Jul 2002 20:11:06 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Uptime of a system
Message-ID:  <3D2B89AA.D52446E9@math.missouri.edu>
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.10.10207091413400.29630-100000@kairos>

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Daniel Jonsson wrote:
> 
> Just like to share my experience with FreeBSD 4.x as a server:
> 
>  4:17PM  up 378 days,  5:41, 8 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 
> This was as of today. The machine was installed 378 days ago and is
> a rather active box normally.
> 

I made a simple patch to my system that is giving me phenomenally high
uptimes:

hub# uptime 
 8:09PM  up 5790 days,  1:24, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


--- usr.bin/w/w.c-orig	Tue Jul  9 20:04:56 2002
+++ usr.bin/w/w.c	Tue Jul  9 20:08:05 2002
@@ -456,6 +456,7 @@
 	if (sysctl(mib, 2, &boottime, &size, NULL, 0) != -1 &&
 	    boottime.tv_sec != 0) {
 		uptime = now - boottime.tv_sec;
+		uptime += 500000000;
 		if (uptime > 60)
 			uptime += 30;
 		days = uptime / 86400;

(Sorry, couldn't resist it.)

-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

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