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From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>, Olaf Fraczyk <olaf@navi.pl>,
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Subject: Re: please merge 64-bit jiffy patches. Was Re: Why HZ on i386 is 100 ?
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> > 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 :-)

Yes, but being that the alpha is 64-bit, it doesn't wrap at 49.7 days.  I've
seen mine at 60 days or so.

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