Re: Never ending kernel

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 15 Sep 1997 23:40:02 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, John G. Alvord wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:55:41 -0700, John Kennedy <jk@csuchico.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >[Jon Lewis]
> >> I just wanted to let people know that something IMO remarkable
> >> happened at FDT today. We had a 1.2.13-lmp kernel pass 497 days
> >> uptime. The jiffie counter wrapped, ...
> >> Can anyone tell me what the record is for linux uptimes? Is there
> >> anyone left to beat?
> >
> Seems like you could debug the jiffie counter wrap problem by adding a
> debug logic to articificially advance it to near the wrap point.

I think someone did this...but not back at 1.2.13.

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