Hi, On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Fan Yang <lljyangfan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi all: > As far as I known, the var jiffies in the kernel will overflow after > 497days as the Hz defined 100. So what waill happen when the jiffies > overflow? It will start back at zero. Everything should continue to work as before. In fact, jiffies are initialized to -300 seconds, so that it will overflow 5 minutes after startup, just to verify that everything works properly. -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.davehylands.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
