Re: uptime wrong in 2.5.70

[Clemens Schwaighofer]

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Tim Schmielau wrote:

>>I a got a test vmware running with a 2.5.70 and I have sligh "overflow"
>>with my uptime.
>>
>>gentoo root # uptime
>> 22:29:47 up 14667 days, 19:08,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
>
> Doesn't ring any bell yet. Can you cat /proc/uptime and /proc/stat output?
> Is this immediately after booting? Reproducable?

gentoo root # cat /proc/uptime
1267537132.92 278990.27
gentoo root # cat /proc/stat
cpu  1542550 0 3915839 27412781 392624
cpu0 1542550 0 3915839 27412781 392624
intr 333933393 332637964 7735 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 7417 0 0 16 0 622268
657988 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ctxt 15529955
btime 4083180513
processes 659768
procs_running 3
procs_blocked 0
gentoo root # uptime
 16:59:20 up 14670 days, 13:39,  3 users,  load average: 1.22, 1.04, 0.49

I will reboot the box now and see if it happens again. but as I read in
other postings to this thread it seams to happen again.

thought I got anohter mail, from David Schwartz who claims that this is
because <quote> This is due to a known bug in the Penitum(R) processor,
which Linux has never claimed to support. </quote>

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