linux-kernel - Re: Why do we still have 32 bit counters? Interrupt counters overflow within 50 days

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1410030722390.9084@gentwo.org>
Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2014 07:23:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why do we still have 32 bit counters? Interrupt counters overflow
 within 50 days

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

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