[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-05-18 18.08, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 12:30 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2011-05-18 08.15, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>> On 5/18/2011 10:44 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
>>>> In article<GowAp.961$t41.959 at newsfe25.ams2>, ChrisQ<meru at devnull.com>
>>>> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> Irrespective of os, Vms, Tru64, Linux or even windows xp, modern
>>>>> systems
>>>>> just keep going until you need to change something, or power fail...
>>>>
>>>> Right, my XP system hasn't crashed since, um, a few days ago.
>>>>
>>>> In fact, it's gotten so it only completes a successful shutdown
>>>> 50% of the time. The other 50% it insists on hanging instead.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I've been running Windows XP SP3 for several years now. It's stable as a
>>> table! About the only time I reboot is following a power outrage long
>>> enough to run down my UPS.
>>>
>>> Windows has come a LONG way!!! I can recall, dimly, Windows 2 point
>>> something. You were lucky to get twenty or thirty minutes between
>>> reboots.
>>
>> You never install any security updates? :-)
>>
>> Johnny
>>
>
> I didn't say never! Try seldom. The worst problems with XP were fixed
> long ago. The system is on a home network with a router that will not
> allow incoming connections that are not responses to outgoing requests.
>
> It's not perfect security but it's "good enough".

It's just that you said "About the only time I reboot is following a 
power outrage long enough to run down my UPS.", which don't match my 
experience with XP, where you need to reboot every other week because of 
updates.
(And then of course, I have the occasional crash as well, but reboots 
are almost always happening long before I have any uptime to speak 
about, so who knows what happens to an XP system that is up for more 
than two months. I've not seen a single one that didn't need a reboot 
long before that.)

	Johnny