Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:12:42PM +0100, Charles Goyard wrote:
On our setup, the problem comes from a counter overflow in uptime
handling on some SCO : after 248 days of uptime, the uptime is reported
negative, and the rrd handler misses the expression (no "up:").
Ahh - the old 31-bit timer tick issue. Linux has the same problem
because a timer ticks at 100 Hz using a signed 32-bit integer; so
2^31 / (24*60*60*100) = 248 days and a bit.
That's news to me -
root at ashpool:~> uptime
8:39am up 1075 days 20:10, 1 user, load average: 3.11, 3.13, 3.07
root at ashpool:~> uname -a
Linux ashpool 2.6.5-7.151-smp #1 SMP Fri Mar 18 11:31:21 UTC 2005 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Joe