From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Apr 2 23:29:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09572 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 23:29:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09468 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 23:29:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id RAA07003; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:28:57 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma006995; Fri, 3 Apr 98 17:28:44 +1000 Received: from hydra.scitec.com.au (hydra.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.101]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA27678; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:28:42 +1000 Received: from scitec.com.au (saruman.scitec.com.au) by hydra.scitec.com.au with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA051048519; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 17:28:39 +1000 Message-Id: <35248FA6.DCE896D6@scitec.com.au> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 17:28:38 +1000 From: John Saunders Organization: SCITEC LIMITED X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Slater Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uptime References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In the Win32 help for GetTickCount()... | The elapsed time is stored as a DWORD value. Therefore, the time will | wrap around to zero if Windows is run continuously for 49.7 days. My guess is that the NT designers knew something when deciding to use a type that would wrap after 49.7 days. Michael Slater wrote: > Hi, > just logged into a machine i use for nothing but Secondary DNS and > mail exchange, and noticed something really suprising. > > 2:39PM up 378 days, 2:37, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > ^^^ > The machine was/is so reliable, i almost forgot about it :) > > This is with 2.1.7-RELEASE on a Pentium 100 32 mb ram > > Like to see NT touch that. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au (Work) | ,--_|\ | mailto:john@nlc.net.au (Home) | / Oz \ | http://www.nlc.net.au/~john/ | \_,--\_/ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61 2 9428 9563 Fax +61 2 9428 9933 | v | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message