On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 06:01, Daniele Bellucci wrote: > 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. Not surprised. You just screwed up every timer on the system. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
