Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:57:04 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good PR Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0302040853060.26438-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <20030204110801.GA25299@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Especially as the uptime counter that Netcraft detects loops back to > zero after 497 days for HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and <ta-da!> recent > versions of FreeBSD. > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#whichos It doesn't really explain why. Anyways, with old Linux kernels (and maybe recent), there is a jiffy counter that resets/rolls-over/overflows after 497 days. I was told about it a week early and one of my 2.0.34? systems crashed on the 497th day. Jeremy C. Reed http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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