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From: "J. Dow" <jdow@earthlink.net>
To: "Federico Grau" <donfede@casagrau.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rocketport pci question... it stopped working after 250 days uptime
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:19:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <139801c05a7c$65f76310$0a25a8c0@wizardess.wiz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001129213933.A5309@casagrau.org>

From: "Federico Grau" <donfede@casagrau.org>

> We have several linux boxes useing 8 port rocketport pci multiport serial
> cards.  Earlier last week 3 of them stopped working within a 24 hour period.
> These three boxes had similar uptimes (since their last kernel rebuild); 249
> days, 248 days, 250 days.  Comparing the logs of each box, we saw that each
> box's rocketport stopped working after aproximately 248 days 16 hours uptime.

If it was 248 days 13 hours 13 minutes 56.48 seconds this represents a 32 bit
counter on a 5ms clock overflowing. I'd look for that in the RocketPort code.
Although I remember Jeff remarking about something else failing at about the
same uptime.

{^_^}    Joanne Dow, jdow@earthlink.net


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-30  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-30  2:39 Federico Grau
2000-11-30  3:19 ` J. Dow [this message]
2000-11-30  3:27 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-02  9:18   ` Federico Grau

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