On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:20:03PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Due to a bug with "w", or the kernel, or whatever, which nobody seems to > want to fix, the system uptime wraps around to 0 days after 400-and-someodd > days. That's why I circled the login/idle time on the screenshot. :-)
The jiffies counter in the kernel rolls over at approximately 497 days uptime on 32-bit platforms. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bc -q 2^32/100/60/60/24 497 (A jiffy is 1/100 of a second). -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(9E8DFF2E4F5995F8FEADDC5829ABF7441FB84657); SMTP([EMAIL PROTECTED]); IRC([EMAIL PROTECTED]); ICQ(114362511); AIM(dreadazathoth); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); FINGER([EMAIL PROTECTED]); MUD([EMAIL PROTECTED]:6669); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]