Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 20:38:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: stuyman@confusion.net (Laurence Berland) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, lethvian@maine.rr.com, jef53313@bayou.uh.edu, joseph@randomnetworks.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jwillis@pmz.com Subject: Re: top uptime list Message-ID: <199904062038.NAA16964@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <370953C3.BE5BA907@confusion.net> from "Laurence Berland" at Apr 5, 99 08:22:27 pm
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> > > > It sure is nice to see that person whose FreeBSD box has been up > > > > 10000+ days ... > > > > > > Thing is...the freebsd project didn't embark until early 1993. > > > 10,000 days ago is ~28 years or 1971, which precedes even the > > > 2.xBSD development (1978). > > > > Maybe it's a multiprocessor box... > > That would matter why? I didnt think it'd multiply uptime by the > number of procs. > Hmmm A 16 processor box could be up 10,000 days in under two years... Less, if there were multiple ALU's, and the CPU's supported pipelining... Even less if you overclocked... Heck, the 64,000 processor box GoodYear built for Goddard could be up for 10,000 days in only 22 and 1/2 minutes... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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