On Fri 16 May 2003 10:45, Joeri Belis wrote: > I looked at our timer and it is at : 1577504985 > > And if i understand correctly, this is a 32bit value and it can go to: > 4294967295. > What will happen when we hit this limit? > > Joeri I've tried to add a sysctl interface for jiffies. When i write 4294967295 to /proc/jiffies my system (32 bit) freeze without handling further interrupt. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP PKEY http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=belch76@libero.it&op=index ICQ# 104896040 Netphone/Fax 178.605.7063 Homepage http://web.tiscali.it/bellucda ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniele Bellucci -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
