From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 17:29:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB7B37B405 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:29:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from electricrain.com (electricrain.com [64.71.143.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7127043EE5 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:29:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fuzzy@electricrain.com) Received: (qmail 10056 invoked by uid 540); 3 Jan 2003 01:29:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:29:49 -0800 From: Chris Doherty To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability Message-ID: <20030103012949.GO19293@zot.electricrain.com> Reply-To: chris-freebsd@randomcamel.net References: <200212170023.gBH0Nvlu000764@beast.csl.sri.com> <20030103000232.GA52181@blazingdot.com> <200301021809.11132.duhring@charter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200301021809.11132.duhring@charter.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: XEmacs X-Koan: mu. Organization: The Inside Foundation Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:09:11PM -0600, Dave Uhring said: > You do realize, I hope, that Linux and Solaris roll over their uptimes > at something like 492 days. from http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#whichos -- Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days, exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at that precise point. Thus it is not possible to see a HP-UX, Linux or Solaris system with an uptime measurement above 497 days. -- wacky. how/why is this the case? chris ------------------------------- Chris Doherty chris [at] randomcamel.net "I think," said Christopher Robin, "that we ought to eat all our provisions now, so we won't have so much to carry." -- A. A. Milne ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message