On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Bluejay Adametz <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is there anyone who has/had SL-6 machines running > 200 days ? > > I've got one that's been running for 252 days. 2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.i686. > >> There is a kernel bug that causes a system crash when the uptime goes >> over 208.5 days. This was noted by an Scientific Linux user on the SL >> Japanese mailing list [1]. > --- >>has an overflow. cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) exceeds 64 bits, causing >>the final value to become zero. > > Is the problem only on 64-bit machines? The one I have at 252 days > uptime is 32-bit.
According to what I've read, (1) the bug occurs on both 32-bit and 64-bit machines; (2) virtual machines are not affected; (3) only the Intel CPU (Pentium4 or newer) is relevant. Akemi
