From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 14 15:54: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nyct.net (bsd4.nyct.net [204.141.86.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A0614C28 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:53:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mbac@nyct.net) Received: from bsd1.nyct.net (mbac@bsd1.nyct.net [204.141.86.3]) by mail.nyct.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA17015; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:53:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mbac@nyct.net) Received: from localhost (mbac@localhost) by bsd1.nyct.net (8.8.8/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26530; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:53:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mbac@nyct.net) X-Authentication-Warning: bsd1.nyct.net: mbac owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 18:53:57 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Bacarella To: Harold Gutch Cc: Soren Schmidt , Brian Beattie , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NT life spans [was: UDF] In-Reply-To: <20000114214234.A14486@foobar.franken.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have > been lost waiting for NT to reboot. > Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Hmm. Our Compaq Proliant (running NT) takes about 5 whole minutes from the moment I click reboot to the time when I can log in as Administrator and actually do something. The Proliant has 4 Pentium Pros at 200 MHz and half a gig of RAM, with a 24 gig array. It is running IIS (for our Front Page clients) and is also acting as a PDC. The results would be slightly more horrfying if you had a slower server. Less horrifying if you had a faster server. If I spend an entire day on it doing something, it usually needs two reboots or so. More if something major happened. So, let's say I worked on it for an entire year. ~18 work days per month, times 12 months per year. 10 minutes per day.. 18 days/month * 12 months/year * 10 minutes/day = 2160 minutes/year 2160 minutes / 60 minutes/hour = 36 hours/year The average number of hours that a human being lives, if they live to 80 is 691200 hours (GAH). 19200 humans working with NT for a year, a single lifespan is lost waiting for NT to reboot. (19200 * 36 = 691200) Some other perspectives: If 1,000,000 people use Windows NT for 1 year, 52 human lives are lost. That's a human life per week! 1,000,000 people using NT for 5 years = 260 lives. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves about the TCO involved in deploying Windows NT across your enterprise. Michael Bacarella To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message