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Subject: Re: rocketport pci question... it stopped working after 250 days uptime
To: donfede@casagrau.org (Federico Grau)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 03:27:49 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <20001129213933.A5309@casagrau.org> from "Federico Grau" at Nov 29, 2000 09:39:33 PM
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> These three boxes had similar uptimes (since their last kernel rebuild); 249
> days, 248 days, 250 days.  Comparing the logs of each box, we saw that each
> box's rocketport stopped working after aproximately 248 days 16 hours uptime.
> So, my questions are:
>  - has anyone heard of such a bug before?

Yes. Someone is doing signed maths on time stamps (2^31 1/100th of a second)

Ted ?


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