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In article <AD580C79-6B2AC@153.37.136.28>, "Frank Nichols"
<fnichols@earthlink.net> wrote:

> ..in the still of the night, for our enlightenment and entertainment -=
> 
>         mailto:mazulauf@atmos.met.utah.edu
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> scribed upon his computer - 
> 
> >Hah!  I've had various incarnations of SunOS/Solaris die on me many
> >times.  Probably at least 10 times over the last 3 or 4 years.  True,
> >
> 
> Just out of curiousity, how many users were connected and running proce=
> sses at the time of these "crashes". One of the points missed by many U=
> NIX types is that when a box goes down it normally affects more than on=
> e person - that is why they are called "multi-user". If say 20 users ar=
> e running processes at the time of the crash, then 10 crashes over 4 ye=
> ars equals 50 user/crashes per year or about the equivalent of 1 user/c=
> rash every 7 days - my Mac runs MUCH longer than that between crashes!

Actually, there were probably no more than 2 or 3 people most of the
time.  Both departments I've worked at the last few years have a pretty
high workstation to user ratio.  I definitely get more crashes out of my
Mac, but I haven't found Unix to be as safe as most seem to think it is.

Most of the crashes occurred when using two or more relatively
resource-hogging applications.  Typically they involved Gempak, a
meteorological graphics package (I hate it), and Netscape/Mosaic.

I don't know too much about systems administration, but these machines
were supposedly up to date in system patches/software.  I would be
surprised if they were very far behind at all, considering the frequency
with which machines were being taken down for updates.

Regards,
          Mike

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Mike Zulauf
mazulauf@atmos.met.utah.edu