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From: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
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Subject: Re: Unknown HZ value! (1908) Assume 1024.
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Tom Holroyd wrote:

> After about 50 days of uptime on 2.4.17 on an Alpha, I started getting
> this message from ps, et al.  The adjtimex program says:
[...]
> 50 days is about 4320000000 clock ticks (normally 1024 Hz) which is
> suspiciously close to 2^32.  Perhaps something is rolling over?

I guess this is a userspace problem, where the tools just use a 32 bit 
value somewhere.
To make sure, can you post /proc/uptime and /proc/stat output? Also, is 
this uniprocessor or SMP?

Tim

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