From: Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
Chaitanya Hazarey <cvh.tcs@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Back to the Future ? or some thing sinister ?
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:33:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <728201270601120633i1c9072fp3329d05b49de790f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137016986.2890.57.camel@cog.beaverton.ibm.com>
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.
Ram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-08 19:31 Chaitanya Hazarey
2006-01-09 4:03 ` Nathan Lynch
2006-01-09 15:26 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-11 18:32 ` Chaitanya Vinay Hazarey
2006-01-11 22:03 ` john stultz
2006-01-12 14:33 ` Ram Gupta [this message]
2006-01-12 18:08 ` john stultz
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