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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why do we still have 32 bit counters? Interrupt counters overflow within 50 days
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 07:23:21 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410030722390.9084@gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412338512.19413.85.camel@x220>

On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, Paul Bolle wrote:

> dc -e "1 k 2 32 ^ 1000 / 86400 / p"
> 49.7
>
> (That was the number I remembered from stories about a ancient Windows
> lockup.)

Well yes, I used bc which discards the remainder on integer divides


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-03 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03  9:45 Christoph Lameter
2014-10-03 10:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-03 11:54   ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-03 12:03     ` Richard Cochran
2014-10-03 12:07       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-03 12:17         ` Richard Cochran
2014-10-03 14:04           ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-05 21:49         ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-05 23:24           ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-05 23:57             ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-06  8:06             ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-06 10:22               ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-06 13:01                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-06 15:16                   ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-06 15:28                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-06 19:34                       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-06 15:31                     ` David Lang
2014-10-06 19:45                       ` Christoph Lameter
2014-10-05 23:59           ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-06  7:54             ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-06 10:49           ` David Lang
2014-10-06 12:28             ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-10-03 12:15     ` Paul Bolle
2014-10-03 12:23       ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-10-04 10:26         ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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