Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:33:51 -0600 | From | Ram Gupta <> | Subject | Re: Back to the Future ? or some thing sinister ? |
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On 1/11/06, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 22:03 -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > Chaitanya Hazarey wrote: > > > > > > We have got a machine, lets say X , make is IBM and the CPU is Intel > > > Pentium 4 2.60 GHz. Its running a 2.6.13.1 Kernel and previously, > > > 2.6.27-4 Kernel the distribution is Debian Sagre.
It may be BIOS related. But I feel it might be an overflow related issue. If the variable is signed int then there will be a transition from 0x7fffffff ns to 0x80000000 ns which is basically from +2 sec to -2 sec which will result in 4 sec loss.
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