[distcc] 120 day uptime trouble with distcc?

[Thomas Schwinge]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:53:47PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 21:40 -0700, Daniel Kegel wrote:
> > I'm running distccd-2.16 in daemon mode on some old 2.2 kernel boxes.
> > After 120 days of uptime, the daemons became unresponsive.
> > First it affected one machine, then another, and finally all of them.
> > Restarting the daemon fixed the problem.
> > Anyone seen anything like that before?
> 
> I have not.  I can believe that perhaps its preforking model rolls over
> some kind of counter in 2.2 after that much time.  Wasn't there a 2.2 or
> 2.0 release that needed to reboot after 1<<32 ms?

linux-2.0.37/drivers/block/floppy.c
#v+
[...]
/*
 * 1999/02/23 -- Paul Slootman -- floppy stopped working on Alpha after 24
 * days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 32 seconds (i.e. MAXINT jiffies; ints were
 * being used to store jiffies, which are unsigned longs).
 */
[...]
#v-

Sorry, I can't help any further.


Regards,
 Thomas