Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:05:37 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The joys of Windows Message-ID: <20000718230537.G19428@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007181312300.25933-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>; from bsdx@looksharp.net on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:18:14PM -0400 References: <20000718165600.13757.qmail@web1304.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007181312300.25933-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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Adam said on Jul 18, 2000 at 13:18:14: > 1:02PM up 63 days, 13:46, 9 users, load averages: 1.31, 1.25, 1.31 > 1:04PM up 196 days, 14:28, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.05, 0.00 Apropos of which: you know that Win95 and Win98 had a bug which was guaranteed to crash them in 49 days? (Basically, they measured time in milliseconds in a 32 bit integer.) They took over 3 years to discover that, simply because none of the millions of windows users had kept the machine up so long. In comparison: linux 2.2 on the alpha had a similar bug (didn't crash the machine but led to some small networking problems). I was apparently the first to report that, because I started using 2.2.1 almost as soon as it came out and the machine just stayed up 48 days till this happened. And of course it was quickly fixed. (Currently that machine's been up 118 days, is used for desktop use and computation by around 20 people, and the last downtime was some power problem.) And I'd be surprised if such a problem ever happened with FreeBSD. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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