Never ending kernel

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:56:50 -0400 (EDT)

I just wanted to let people know that something IMO remarkable happened at
FDT today. We had a 1.2.13-lmp kernel pass 497 days uptime. The jiffie
counter wrapped, my ssh session to the system got killed, but everything
else seems to have survived. The main sshd process, Apache, named,
sendmail, etc. are all still running 5 hours after the big wrap.

It really confuses the heck out of procinfo...it thinks it booted today
when the wrap happened, but the idle times show it didn't.

Bootup: Sun Sep 14 19:41:10 1997 Load average: 0.16 0.08 0.02 1/28

user : 2d 13:42:04.18 1195.5% page in : 8271435 disk 1: 18126041
nice : 0:00:00.00 0.0% page out: 18239002
system: 6d 12:55:00.67 3040.4% swap in : 1055969
idle : 248d 13:13:56.47 -115580.-3% swap out: 9430
uptime: 5:09:46.54 context : 231353133

Can anyone tell me what the record is for linux uptimes? Is there anyone
left to beat?

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