Messages in this thread | | | From | BROWN Nick <> | Subject | RE: 48 day uptime problem? | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:26:27 +0200 |
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>Guessing wildly but educatedly, I'd say someone is counting timer ticks in a >32-Bit unsigned. The alpha's timer interrupts at 1024Hz AFAIK which would >result in said 48 days.
This was the cause of the famous "Windows 95/98 crashes after 49.7 days" problem, which of course remained undiscovered until this year because nobody had managed to keep their system up that long... Apparently that was counting genuine milliseconds which gives 49.7. 2**-10 of a second would give 48.5 days.
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