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From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:10:46 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9rtnum$pvl$2@ncc1701.cistron.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111011224440.1053-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0111020059170.5092-100000@gans.physik3.uni-rostock.de> <20011101182334.P16554@lynx.no>

In article <20011101182334.P16554@lynx.no>,
Andreas Dilger  <adilger@turbolabs.com> wrote:
>Probably need to make idle a 64-bit value as well, even if the individual
>items are not, just to avoid potential overflow...

Well idle will still overflow after a bit more than 497 days on a
typical system that is 99% idle, if init_tasks[0]->times.tms_{u,s}time
are left at 32 bits.

Mike.
-- 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
 and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-02  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-31 22:11 [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime Petr Vandrovec
2001-10-31 21:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 22:58 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 23:56   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-01  0:23     ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-01  0:52       ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-01 11:21         ` george anzinger
2001-11-01 11:40           ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-02  0:28             ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-02  1:23               ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-02  9:10                 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
2001-11-02 17:18                 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-11-02 18:48                   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-02 21:35                     ` possibly incorrect comparisons of jiffies in linux kernel Tim Schmielau
2001-11-01 16:35         ` [Patch] Re: Nasty suprise with uptime vda
2001-11-01 15:34           ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 17:02             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-01 18:03               ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 18:34                 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-02 14:46                   ` vda
2001-11-01 17:29             ` george anzinger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-01  9:02 Petr Vandrovec
     [not found] <01103121070200.01262@nemo>
2001-10-31 19:26 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 19:52   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 20:00     ` J Sloan
2001-10-31 20:20     ` Charles Cazabon
2001-10-31 20:33       ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-10-31 20:47 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 21:07   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 21:11   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01 16:09   ` vda
2001-10-31 11:35 Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 15:39 ` vda
2001-10-31 14:31   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 18:16     ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 18:35       ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 18:59         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 18:40       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 18:58         ` Gerhard Mack
2001-10-31 19:14           ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 20:11             ` Gerhard Mack
2001-10-31 20:39               ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-10-31 20:52               ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 21:05                 ` Tim Schmielau
2001-10-31 21:39                   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 21:17                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-01  7:45                   ` Ville Herva
2001-10-31 19:06       ` george anzinger
2001-10-31 22:54       ` george anzinger
2001-11-04 18:31         ` Ton Hospel

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