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Re: Jiffies

On Fri 16 May 2003 10:45, Joeri Belis wrote:
> I looked at our timer and it is at  : 1577504985
>
> And if i understand correctly, this is a 32bit value and it can go to:
> 4294967295.
> What will happen when we hit this limit?
>
> Joeri


I've tried to add a sysctl interface for jiffies. 
When i write 4294967295 to /proc/jiffies my system (32 bit) freeze without handling further interrupt.



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