Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:49:44 -0800 (PST) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: Nasty suprise with uptime |
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, J Sloan wrote:
> Vile Hernia wrote: > > > BTW, on win95 the HZ is 1024, which caused it to _always_ crash if it ever > > reached 48.5 days of uptime. I've seen NT4 SMP to to crash at same point as > > well (though it doesn't do it always). > > It's funny that windoze went for years > without anybody ever realizing about > the 49 day crash - heck, one crash > every 49 days is lost in the noise on > a windoze pee cee - no wonder they > never noticed. > > OTOH, when our Linux uptimes went back > to zero at 497 days, I noticed immediately, > and screamed bloody murder until I found > it was just a timer wraparound. > Seems to be a cultural diffrence between windows and linux users.
Probably something for ESR or whoever to do a paper on ;)
Gerhard
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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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