PSA: If you run -current, beware!

Luigi Rizzo rizzo at iet.unipi.it
Tue Feb 3 22:02:43 UTC 2015


On Tuesday, February 3, 2015, Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> wrote:

> Sometime in the Dec 10th through Jan 7th timeframe a timing bug has been
> introduced to 11.x/head/-current.    With HZ=1000 (the default for bare
> metal,
> not for a vm); the clocks stop just after 24 days of uptime.

  This means
>


Signed 32 bit overflow it seems from the numbers ? Wasn't that a windows
feature in the old days ? :)

Cheers
Luigi



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