[oclug] [OT] Birthday announcement/testimonial

Robert Brockway rbrockway at opentrend.net
Wed Mar 2 10:54:10 EST 2005


On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Raj wrote:

> does this mean its been 497 days since the last massive blackout?  Now
> there's a reason to celebrate!
> 
> btw, things tend to break when the uptime counter rolls over to zero, as
> I found out the hard way.. so if you see strange things happening, it
> might be a good idea to reboot it (yes, I did say reboot :)

The kernel is _supposed_ to be jiffie rollover clean these days (and 497 
days ago IIRC) so anyone seeing funny stuff after a jiffie rollover (497 
days to 0 uptime) should report it.

Rob

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