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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:28:28 +0200
From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Olaf Fraczyk <olaf@navi.pl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: please merge 64-bit jiffy patches. Was Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:24:26PM +0000, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> Trivially fixed with the existing 64-bit jiffies patches.  As it is,
> your uptime wraps to zero after 472 days or something like that if you
> don't have the 64-bit jiffies patch, which is totally in the realm of
> possibility for Linux servers.

I feel your pain 

4:26am  up 482 days, 10:33,  2 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00

On a very remote server.

So can we please merge the 64-bit jiffies patches? I sometimes think that
that is the main reason why alpha DOES have HZ=1024 - the jiffies there
don't wrap in an embarrassing way within two months :-)

Regards,

bert

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