Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:04:40 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: Stephen Hildrey <steve@uptime.org.uk> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability Message-ID: <Mahogany-0.64.2-968-20030103-090440.00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030103195010.D73262-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> References: <20030103195010.D73262-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:51:14 +1100 (EST) Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > > Strange, I do not see this behaviour on one of our Solaris boxes: > > > > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.5.1 Generic May 1996 > > bash-2.00# uptime > > 9:05am up 1102 day(s), 15:42, 1 user, load average: 0.07, > 0.02, 0.02 > > I think they mean that the uptime, as detected by netcraft, rolls > over. Linux uptimes do indeed rollover after 497 days due to the uptime being stored as a 32bit number of jiffies (IIRC). The maths is something like: a jiffy is 1/100th of a second, so ((2^32)/100)/(24*60*60) = 497. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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