-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 17 August 2001 18:30, Alan N. wrote: > I'm running a Linux machine at work ( very sucessfully I might add! ) > that basically is an automated FTP server to get weather maps from > the TV weatherman's SGI network and FTP 'em to the tv stations > website. I checked the machine Monday, seeing that today ( Friday ) > would be the machines 500th day of uptime. So I went in there today > to gloat at it and it had an uptime of 3 days.!! WHAT this cannot > be!! Great Story! What kernel are you running, by the way? > I searched in /var/logs and found the file which contains the boot up > log.. Date on is was Sept. 27, 1999. So I cannot see where the > machine rebooted, crashed and the graphix on the website never > hiccupped, they are updated every 10 minutes with timestamps placed > on them with the SGI's creation of the graphx.. > > Anyone know WHY this is.. I was really bummed. It says 3 days uptime > but I'm convinced it's 500.. It's uptime *is* 500 days. The problem is the 32 bit word and the fact that the kernel's clock is 100th of a second. Therefore, (2**32)/(24*60*600*100) = 497 days 2 hours 27 minutes 53 second Ron - -- Fri Aug 17 19:20:40 2001 Seq. Timestamp Uptime - ---- ------------------------ ------------ 1: Thu May 17 01:44:04 2001 - 35 15:31:51 - 2.4.3-20mdk 2: Mon Jul 16 16:28:17 2001 - 32 02:52:23 - 2.4.6-3mdk <<-- 3: Thu Jun 21 17:33:18 2001 - 10 05:29:02 - 2.4.3-20mdk 4: Sun Jul 1 23:03:05 2001 - 7 10:13:18 - 2.4.3-20mdk 5: Wed Jul 11 15:11:11 2001 - 5 01:16:26 - 2.4.6-3mdk 6: Tue Jul 10 02:55:19 2001 - 1 09:18:42 - 2.4.3-20mdk 7: Wed Jul 11 12:14:35 2001 - 0 02:20:37 - 2.4.6-3mdk 8: Wed Jul 11 14:39:19 2001 - 0 00:31:20 - 2.4.6-3mdk 9: Wed Jul 11 14:35:45 2001 - 0 00:03:01 - 2.4.6-3mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7fbbDjTz5dS9Us5wRAodUAJ0bk4E/B94GCTdwtuLc2Xg8vQPPZwCbBcz+ Tl3ItCZtWMyMbuOeN0VryFg= =xSQB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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