Hello Sebastiaan! At Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:50 Sebastiaan wrote:
> I have encountered a strange problem in my uptime status. I have a > computer running for over 500 days and a script that displays the > uptime in days with MRTG. > > For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return day > information any more: > > $ uptime > 08:36:00 up 14:48, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.18, 0.16 > > and > > $ cat /proc/uptime > 53341.82 17513797.50 > > > I am sure of 2 things: > - it wasn't me (I was on vacation and I don't have auto-update > scripts running) > - the computer doesn't reboot daily, since /tmp isn't cleaned > > I am running kernel 2.4.18 on a PowerMac. > > Any ideas what is going on here? Yep, "jiffies rollover", see http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=158 for further info. HTH, Flo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
