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Date:      Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:13:34 -0400
From:      "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>
To:        advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: top uptime!
Message-ID:  <3AE0FADE.5801FF96@mail.ptd.net>
References:  <20010421093009.M72002@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104201716040.17317-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <20010420212338.Z41536@bsd.havk.org>

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Steve Price wrote:
> 
>.  However the uptime counter
> (cat /proc/uptime) is counted in seconds in a 32bit variable.  So it
> isn't possible for a Linux box to show more than 497 days of uptime
> because the uptime rolls over then.  FWIW.

But 497 days is only about 4.3e7 seconds, whereas 32 bits can count
about 2e9 seconds (signed).

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