From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 18 10:36:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F315137B737 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:35:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 40881 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2000 17:35:39 -0000 Received: from theory6.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.126) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 18 Jul 2000 17:35:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 19998 invoked by uid 211); 18 Jul 2000 17:35:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:05:37 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Adam Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The joys of Windows Message-ID: <20000718230537.G19428@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000718165600.13757.qmail@web1304.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from bsdx@looksharp.net on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:18:14PM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.15pre4 alpha Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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