Re: rocketport pci question... it stopped working after 250 days uptime

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 22:27:49 EST


> These three boxes had similar uptimes (since their last kernel rebuild); 249
> days, 248 days, 250 days. Comparing the logs of each box, we saw that each
> box's rocketport stopped working after aproximately 248 days 16 hours uptime.
> So, my questions are:
> - has anyone heard of such a bug before?

Yes. Someone is doing signed maths on time stamps (2^31 1/100th of a second)

Ted ?

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