On 1/19/06, Rumi Szabolcs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've got a Linux system running the 2.4.26 kernel which was about
> to pass the 500 day mark these days and now suddenly what I see is
> that the uptime counter has reset:
>
> $ uname -a && w && cat /proc/uptime && last -1 reboot
> Linux quasar 2.4.26 #3 SMP Tue Sep 7 09:22:08 CEST 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> 09:38:08 up 1 day, 12:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> rumi pty/s0 08:53 0.00s 0.04s 0.02s screen -r
> rumi ttyp1 10Sep04 31:58 9:12 9:12 epic
> rumi ttyp3 Tue12 44:33m 0.01s 0.01s -/bin/bash
> rumi ttyp2 13Feb05 8days 0.11s 0.11s -/bin/bash
> rumi ttypc 11Dec05 0.00s 0.12s 0.11s -/bin/bash
> 132596.51 39801752.60
> reboot system boot 2.4.26 Tue Sep 7 18:47 (498+15:50)
>
> From the above it can be seen that the system is running continuously
> and wasn't rebooted 36 hours ago as the uptime counter would suggest.
>
> Is this a known bug?
It's not a bug - it is a feature. uptime rolls over after 497 days.
[sic]
It computes the result of the "uptime" based on the internal "jiffies"
counter, which counts the time since boot, in units of 10
milliseconds.
This is typecast as an "unsigned long" - on the Intel boxes, that's an
unsigned 32-bit number.
Well, it turns out that in a 32-bit number, you can store 497.1 days
before the number wraps.
You can use:
last -xf /var/run/utmp runlevel
to get true uptime in this instance.
Nick
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