Re: Unknown HZ value! (1908) Assume 1024.

Tim Schmielau (tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de)
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:41:17 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Tom Holroyd wrote:

> After about 50 days of uptime on 2.4.17 on an Alpha, I started getting
> this message from ps, et al. The adjtimex program says:
[...]
> 50 days is about 4320000000 clock ticks (normally 1024 Hz) which is
> suspiciously close to 2^32. Perhaps something is rolling over?

I guess this is a userspace problem, where the tools just use a 32 bit
value somewhere.
To make sure, can you post /proc/uptime and /proc/stat output? Also, is
this uniprocessor or SMP?

Tim

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