Bug 32359 – uptime rolls over after 45 days in gentoo-sources kernel

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dave Brondsema 2003-10-30 19:52:44 UTC]

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Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-10-30 22:09:18 UTC]

It's due to Hz=1000, it's not trivially as fixable as they make it seem.
It's definitely not getting fixed for the 2.4.20 based version. I'll see
if I can find a patch for the next version, but I'm not promising anything.

[Comment 2 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) 2003-10-31 10:30:51 UTC]

FYI: there are patches for the 2.4 kernels, but they are highly experimental.
Use at your own risk.

http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/2.4/

[Comment 3 Dave Brondsema 2003-11-01 09:35:49 UTC]

Please look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/variable-HZ/v2.4/
and see if that helps.  I really don't know how hard it is to make the uptime
work correctly, but I think it's fairly important and these patches seem
to be all you need.  Thanks.

[Comment 4 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) 2003-11-01 09:59:26 UTC]

Don't we already have an HZ patch in 'General Setup -> Timer Frequency' in
gentoo-sources?