From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 25 22:24:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42C9414D23 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:24:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 45867 invoked by uid 100); 26 Mar 1999 06:24:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Mar 1999 06:24:31 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:24:31 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: what does stable mean?6 In-Reply-To: <199903260406.VAA14834@chad.anasazi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's ok - just make sure to do the Losedos bashing in private, otherwise people will think you're a fanatic. On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote: > Any WinNT boxes doing =real= work that have been up for over four > months? Hmm - there's a bug in Windows 95/98 that causes the system to freeze at 57 days. Maybe that's in NT? > We had an OLTP system (a Pyramid running SysVr4) that ran for > slightly over a year (370 days) processing a half million > transactions a day (or so). It came down because we had to reboot > it for an application software upgrade. My favorite story is the bug report4.X BSD) that "uptime" formatting was broken if you had been up for more than 999 days....