From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 20 17:38:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [63.145.197.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D76837B424 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:38:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14qlPp-0007UA-00; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:38:21 -0700 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:38:21 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top uptime! In-Reply-To: <20010421093009.M72002@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I ran Linux 2.0.36 for 497 days. It had some known 497-day bug (jiffy > > problem?) that crashed it with a kernel panic. > > Is it possible that this bug was fixed less than 595 days ago? That > seems to be the only sensible explanation I can find for Linux' > complete absence from this list. I am having a heck of time finding a complete Changes Log for Linux. But I am finding some postings about this Linux jiffie wraparound problem on the linux-kernel list. From Linus: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9810.2/0404.html It appears that some jiffie wraparound patches were available in Oct, 1999 and some patches were being discussed in May, 2000. I really have no clue if it is fixed even today. Here is another interesting posting: http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9910.0/0114.html Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message