[Gllug] Uptime gone mad

[Dan Kolb]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:01:32PM +0100, Dani Pardo wrote:
> 
> 	Hi list, I have a machine running Mandrake 8.1 for more than one 
> 	year without reboot. Now, coming back from vacation, says the uptime is 8 
> days. And it hasn't been rebooted (I know because it's still running 
> mysqld, wich is not setup on init scripts). Kernel is 2.4.17, syslogd 
> not running (on purpose :)
> 	Anyone knows how the kernel computes the uptime? Date is still 
> 	correct. And last time I saw a correct uptime on that machine it was said 
> more than 400 days.

Some kernel versions (apparently yours; not sure when it was fixed) overflowed
when the uptime reached > 497 days, hence your "8-day" uptime.

Dan
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