On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:25:41AM -0600, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:18:33AM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > >>>> I think the uptime counter counts up to 497 days, and then it >>>> starts all over again. So currently we would not have any reports >>>> positively documenting more than 497 days of uptime. >>>> I read somewhere that the time is counted in "jiffies" where one >>> >>> i believe that bug was fixed in linux a few years ago. >>> >>> theres no longer a 497 day limit .. >> >> could someone please tell me for sure? i'm at 470 right now... :-) > > Since it wasn't fixed 470 days ago, I think your counter's going to > overflow. ;)
Also, if you're unlucky some drivers will be confused by the wraparound. There's been a recent discussion about this on the kernel mailing list. -- Tim van Erven [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
