[Gllug] pointless uptime wars

Jack Bertram jack at jbertram.net
Thu Sep 9 10:23:52 UTC 2004


* Martin A. Brooks <martin at clues.ltd.uk> [040909 09:47]:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 09:44, Jack Bertram wrote:
> > As a starter for ten, my desktop (not server) manages 411 days
> 
> Come back in 2 years and try again.

:)

So you've hit the 497-day rollover and kept on going?  I always wondered
whether other things in the kernel depended on being able to subtract
two sets of jiffies and therefore whether a reboot after 497 days was
advisable.

cheers,
j

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