With servers at least its all about controlled outages rather than uncontrolled ones :) With desktop computers I suppose its less important - I mean, look at the plethora of Windows boxen filling up everyones desks today, if uptime -was- important on the desktop then this situation would never have gotten so out of control... Craig On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:58:47 -0600, Clint Tinsley wrote:
Christopher D. Reimer wrote:
I think Win98 had a bug where it would crash every 45 days or so.
One thing I don't understand is this mantra about how long you can leave a computer up before it will crash or when you might need to force it down or reboot to get things running right again. At a Novell conference a year or so back, they had contest to find longest running server. One of the longest running ones was one that had been up over 8 years and probably hadn't been seen in that length of time because it had been walled in and the only way they found it was pull on the wire... :-)) Most people turn off their systems off when they go home at night or go to bed and that does not qualify as a reboot. As a Network Administrator, I want people to log off and turn off their computers at night before leaving...
Clint
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