[ale] uptime weirdness

[Jim Popovitch]

:(

I'll still get about 520 days straight out of that box (crossing fingers
again) before it comes offline, I'll just have no way of 'proving' it.

Thanks guys,

-Jim P.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Chris
> Ricker
> Sent: Thursday, 28 August, 2003 12:25
> To: ALE
> Subject: Re: [ale] uptime weirdness
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> > Ok, I have this box that has been online and functioning for ~500 days.
> > It's nice and secure, so I don't suspect any hack etc (crossing
> fingers).
> > Three days ago uptime reported 498 days. :)  Today I logged in
> expecting to
> > see 501, but all I see is this:
> >
> > ~uptime
> >   8:55am  up 2 days, 19:06,  1 user,  load average: 0.41, 0.50, 0.54
> >
> > ~cat /proc/uptime
> > 242297.24 36336792.17
> >
> > I appears that there is some flakiness on older kernels (this
> one is 2.2.16)
> > that causes uptime to wrap around (signed integer?).  Does
> anybody know this
> > for sure?
>
> Yes. And around 497 days is where the jiffies roll over.
>
> later,
> chris
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