Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2007 13:53:55 -0700 | From | "Kevin Bowling" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8 |
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On 5/11/07, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:18:25PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > Also notice that current cpus were not designed to work 300 years. > > > > When we have hw designed for 50 years+, we can start to worry. > > On a related note, older technology is less sensible. My old VAX VLC4000 > from 1991 which received a small heatsink in exchange for its noisy fans > is still doing well in an closed place. I'm more worried for the EPROMs > which store the boot code. Also, I think that the RS6000 processed at > half-micron which run the Mars rovers might run for hundreds of years > at 30 MHz.
Not your typical RS/6000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD6000
Without a doubt, decently built computers will easily last at least 10 years. From what I can tell, the issue here was simply OS runtime? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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