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Hi,

This tickles something in the back of my memory.

You aren't by chance talking about remote uptime detection,
Netcraft-style, are you?

IIRC, that rolls over to 0 at 497 days.  But actual system uptime is
unaffected.

==ml

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:39:30PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> Rob.
> 
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