Re: uptime wrong in 2.5.70

[george anzinger <george@mvista.com>]

Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I a got a test vmware running with a 2.5.70 and I have sligh "overflow"
> with my uptime.
> 
> gentoo root # uptime
>  22:29:47 up 14667 days, 19:08,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Uptime currently reports a conversion of jiffies which is currently 
jacked up to a few seconds short of 32 bits worth of jiffies (for 
testing purposes).

I have a patch pending with Andrew to convert uptime to use the POSIX 
monotonic clock which a) will start at 0 at boot time and b) will 
account for NTP clock adjustments.  Should give an uptime real close 
to the best of watches (or even better) :)

-g
> 
> I think thats a bit too much ;)
> 
> Linux gentoo.tequila.intern 2.5.80 #1 Tue May 27 14:42:51 JST 2003 i686
> Intel(R) Penitum(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> running on a
> Gentoo System (unstable tree)
> 
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George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml