But this(making overflow of jiffies) was implemented in this kernel to
simulate that situation in a considerable time(5 minutes), otherwise it
would take 498 days to create that situation. In 2.4 kernel the overflow of
jiffies is not seen.
Thanks & Regards
Moon EC
Engineer
Kalki Communication Technologies Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
India.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Avishay Traeger" <atraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Moon EC" <moon.ec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "kernelnewbies" <kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: Using Times () system call...
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:04 +0530, Moon EC wrote:
> > In this version of kernel, from man page, this value get incremented
> > in every clock interrupt, from 2^32/HZ -300 (In my case, HZ = 100),
> > since bootup and it should get overflow in 300 seconds.
>
> I think you may have read the man page wrong (added emphasis on
> "before"):
>
> "Since Linux 2.6, this point is (2^32/HZ) - 300 (i.e., about 429
> million) seconds _BEFORE_ system boot time."
>
> Avishay
>
>
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