[plug] SCO uptime display limit

[Bernd Felsche]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:21:01AM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> Does anyone with a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 box experience this after
> lengthy uptime:
> 
> # uptime
>  8:06am  up  14 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 
> It wants to stick it up my 14 users, can't really blame it there :)

Seen that before... when OpenSewer hasn't paniced.

> >From the dates on some of the processes I calculate it at 268 days
> uptime.  The nightly logs I get from backups stopped showing it
> correctly after 248 days.

That's about right... overflow. "sar" will produce interesting
results as well with kernel activity counters overflowing, IIRC.

Had similar issues with HP-UX so it's a System V problem.

> I gather this is normal behaviour, can anyone confirm?

Nominal behaviour; yes.

> Maybe if I buy a Linux license it will start working ...

I'll sell you one; cheep... :-)

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