[Info-vax] The dangers of extended uptime. Was: Re: swap and page files

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-03 15:15:24 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> ...it's surprising what can come crawling out of the woodwork...

If you don't test or if you miss a test case, certainly.

Apple just got bagged by a corner case in iOS date handling with their 
Do Not Disturb function, and the details of that are still just 
filtering out.

VMS was getting bagged by date handling for years, and it's still far 
too messy for my preferences.  VMS date handling is still arguably 
fundamentally broken, too. Unix got this one (more) right with UTC 
everywhere, rather than localtime.  But I digress.

There's reportedly a very evil PCSI bug floating around in an error 
path, too — make sure your PCSI patches are current, or Very Bad Things 
can happen.

I've chased critters in NEWUSER over the years.  If you're not current 
there, please upgrade.

Bugs happen.

That's why we test, after all.

Long server uptimes are the antithesis of testing.


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