From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 6 13:41:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E8E14D03 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:41:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14253; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:57:31 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd014216; Tue Apr 6 14:57:25 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA16964; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:38:53 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199904062038.NAA16964@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: top uptime list To: stuyman@confusion.net (Laurence Berland) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 20:38:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, lethvian@maine.rr.com, jef53313@bayou.uh.edu, joseph@randomnetworks.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jwillis@pmz.com In-Reply-To: <370953C3.BE5BA907@confusion.net> from "Laurence Berland" at Apr 5, 99 08:22:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > 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