> on Intel machines the jiffies count will wrap sometime after a year of
> uptime (4 billion / 100 seconds). It also mentioned that weird stuff may
> happen at this time (as you may expect, if anyone is making poor
> assumptions about jiffies). Has anyone ever edited the kernel so that
> jiffies starts at 0xFFF00000 at boot to see what happens, and fix any
> ensuing problems?
I've got one machine that's been up and running since Sep 24, 1996.
That's two wraps already; haven't seen any strange things happening.
-- Leszek.-- lech7@pse.pl 2:480/33.7 -- REAL programmers use INTEGERS -- -- speaking just for myself...
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