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VegaStream Strange SNMP counter reset

Posted on 2008-02-28 15:00:00, modified on 2008-02-28 15:15:00
Tags: VegaStream, SNMP, Numbers

VegaStream has some very nice ATAs and T38 devices (still), but after the upgrade to VEGA400_R082S017 (8.2.17) every two and a half day their system.sysUptime counter gets resetted:

> Host  : sjh-vega400
> Output: Uptime is less than an hour! (328.61 seconds)
> Date  : 2008-02-28 14:21:08

According to Nagios, this happens every two and a half days:

The device doesn't reboot, the sysUpTime count just goes back to zero. Device itself says it's up for 9 days.

About 2 days, 11 hours, 37 minutes, 62 seconds.
214682 seconds...
0x3469a...

No idea which magic number is involved here.

Update
Thanks to callum on irc.oz.org/#bugs : 2 ^ 31 / 10,000, or an overflow of the signed counter of the number of 100 microseconds.


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One device, three measurement units

Posted on 2007-10-09 17:00:00
Tags: Happiness, Numbers

This device measures... 2RU by 19 inch by (grabs measure-tape) 40 centimeters.


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The relevance of numbers

Posted on 2007-10-07 17:00:00
Tags: Happiness, Numbers

The number 36: When talking about health it's a good number: 36 degrees Celcius is good. When talking about a pregnant woman it's a good number: 36 weeks is still a month to go!

And for both situations, everything above 40 is bad.


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Interesting numbers

Posted on 2005-03-24 16:38:41, modified on 2006-01-09 16:29:23
Tags: Coding, Numbers

If you're coding, interesting numbers will show up sometimes!

This application stops running after 49 days

49 days = 49 days * 24 hours per day * 60 minutes per hour * 60 seconds per minute * 1000 ms = 4,233,600,000, or 0xFC579C00, or close to 0xFFFFFFFF. In other words, some unsigned 64 bit millisecond counter just overflowed.

This application stops running after 24 days

Same story here, except that is an signed 64 bit millisecond counter.

NumberSignificance
86400Number of seconds per day

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