RE: 48 day uptime problem?

BROWN Nick (Nick.BROWN@coe.int)
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:26:27 +0200

>Guessing wildly but educatedly, I'd say someone is counting timer
ticks in a
>32-Bit unsigned. The alpha's timer interrupts at 1024Hz AFAIK which
would
>result in said 48 days.

This was the cause of the famous "Windows 95/98 crashes after 49.7 days"
problem, which of course remained undiscovered until this year because
nobody had managed to keep their system up that long... Apparently that was
counting genuine milliseconds which gives 49.7. 2**-10 of a second would
give 48.5 days.

|\ | o _ |/ Life's like a jigsaw
| \| | |_ |\ You get the straight bits
But there's something missing in the middle

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