[Om2008.9] runaway proc events/0 && automatic reboot

[Korbinian Rosenegger]

Hi

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 16:21 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> my small script monitoring the events/0 proc is logging as well when the
> runaway occures, date and uptime:
> 
> # cat runaway.log 
> Wed Jan 14 01:20:04 CET 2009
>  01:20:04 up 18:26,  0 users,  load average: 0.42, 0.63, 0.49
> Thu Jan 15 14:49:19 CET 2009
>  14:49:19 up 18:26,  0 users,  load average: 0.53, 0.76, 0.64
> 
> do you see the interesting point? the problem is uptime-driven!

18 * 3600 + 26 * 60 = 66360

Interesting, since it is only ~14 Minutes above 65536 and your script
checks about every 10 Minutes (i think). So maybe there's a unsigned int
overflow or a similar problem somewhere?


cu Korbi

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