On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Bluejay Adametz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Is there anyone who has/had SL-6 machines running > 200 days ?
>
> I've got one that's been running for 252 days. 2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.i686.
>
>> There is a kernel bug that causes a system crash when the uptime goes
>> over 208.5 days. This was noted by an Scientific Linux user on the SL
>> Japanese mailing list [1].
> ---
>>has an overflow. cyc * per_cpu(cyc2ns, cpu) exceeds 64 bits, causing
>>the final value to become zero.
>
> Is the problem only on 64-bit machines? The one I have at 252 days
> uptime is 32-bit.

According to what I've read, (1) the bug occurs on both 32-bit and
64-bit machines;  (2) virtual machines are not affected; (3) only the
Intel CPU (Pentium4 or newer) is relevant.

Akemi