From: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.x kernel uptime counter problem
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:22:42 +0000
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On Thursday 19 January 2006 20:18, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> > You can use:
> > last -xf /var/run/utmp runlevel
> >
> > to get true uptime in this instance.
> >
> > Nick
>
> I would add that if you need to get valid outputs after such an uptime,
> you can apply the vhz-j64 patch available at Robert Love's (RML) on
> kernel.org.

:-(  Then you would have to start all over again and wait 497.1 days to see if 
it works... :-0

Seriously, is this patch to be added to 2.4.x tree at all in the future?

Nick
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