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On 12 Sep 2014 07:43, at 07:43, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: >> On 12Sep2014 11:29, Steven D'Aprano ><steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> >> wrote: >>> >>> [...]maxint. I know that some Linux >>> systems can have an uptime over a year, perhaps even two years, but >I >>> think >>> that nearly 300 years is asking a bit much. >> >> >> 2 years is nothing. Unless they have a particularly buggy kernel, >most UNIX >> systems, Linux included, will stay up almost indefinitely. We've >definitely >> had systems up for well over 2 years. >> >>> Your hardware probably won't >>> keep working that long. >> >> >> 300 years? Probably not. Regrettably. > >Once you get into the counting of years (rather than days), it's all >down to hardware. How long before that hardware needs an upgrade? Does >your incoming power have fail-overs? I don't currently have any >servers with multiple power supplies, so if anything like that goes >bung, my server's down. Doesn't matter how quickly I can bring up an >equivalent on a different hunk of hardware, the uptime's gone. > >But yeah. 300 years? Good luck. I don't think anyone's ever going to >hit that. > >ChrisA >-- >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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