Re: Kernel 2.0.35 limits

[Alexander Viro]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Paul Faure wrote:

> Just this morning, our firewall get a kernel panic after 500 days of
> uptime.
> 
> As you can see from the log files, the date starts at June 15th, where we
> get two div by zeros, then jumps May 11th, then a kernel panic. A reboot
> brings it back to June 15th. Since cron could not open /dev/rtc. My first
> thought was an internal kernel limit on the time, but 500 days seems a bit
> short.
> 
> Any ideas ?

(1<<32) / (24 * 60 * 60 * 100) == 497

IOW, 2^32 timer interrupts since the boot.