Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:33:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:33:21 -0500 Received: from firebird.planetinternet.be ([195.95.34.5]:23308 "EHLO firebird.planetinternet.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:33:17 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:33:45 +0100 From: Kurt Roeckx To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime Message-ID: <20011031213345.A779@ping.be> In-Reply-To:

<20011031142044.D6869@qcc.sk.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011031142044.D6869@qcc.sk.ca>; from linux-kernel@discworld.dyndns.org on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:20:44PM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:20:44PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > That's 6 extra clocks every Hz or 600 clocks per second. By the time > > you've reached the 497.1 days, you have wasted.... 0xffffffff/6 = > > 715,827,882 CPU clocks just so 'uptime' is correct? I don't think > > so. I'd reboot. > > For proportion: 716 million CPU clocks, on an "average" PC today is > less than one second of CPU time. Over the course of 497 days, that's > not much overhead at all. Not to mention that it takes alot more clocks to setup and return from the interupt. Kurt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/