On Fri, 7 May 2004, KevinO wrote:

> I have a 'personal' machine, tucked away on a secured network. It is
> isolated from other users and all forms of internet traffic. It is
> running Mandrake 7.0 and no updates have been available nor installed
> for years.
>
> It just hit 1000 days of uptime at 4:07pm MST, Thursday May 6th, 2004.

What kernel is that? Was it a testing 2.5 kernel? Or a 2.4 kernel?

I believe that a stock Mandrake 7.0 uses the old 2.2.14 kernel.

I did not know that was possible with kernels of that age. It is well
documented that Linux kernels have a jiffy roll-over after 497 days which
in most cases locks up the box.

 http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9810.2/0404.html

 http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9910.0/0114.html

In my case, the kernel panicked and the system rebooted and the file
system needed a lot of manual intervention.

> I think it is time I just turned the damn thing off and upgraded it to
> Mandrake 10.0 with a 2.6 kernel. (Clean the dust out too)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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