Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934197AbXEKUyR (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 16:54:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760034AbXEKUx7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 16:53:59 -0400 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.224]:48474 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934107AbXEKUx5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 16:53:57 -0400 Message-ID: <11f674920705111353x39ec43a3taa2d05f706443e0a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:53:55 -0700 From: "Kevin Bowling" To: "Willy Tarreau" Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8 Cc: "Pavel Machek" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Peter Williams" , "Esben Nielsen" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Balbir Singh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , "Con Kolivas" , "Nick Piggin" , "Mike Galbraith" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "Thomas Gleixner" , caglar@pardus.org.tr, "Gene Heskett" , "Mark Lord" , "Zach Carter" , buddabrod In-Reply-To: <20070511193751.GC20383@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070502111742.GA18132@elte.hu> <20070506082911.GA32644@elte.hu> <463FC5D8.2090502@bigpond.net.au> <20070510130954.GC4052@ucw.cz> <20070511191824.GA7135@ucw.cz> <20070511193751.GC20383@1wt.eu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1098 Lines: 23 On 5/11/07, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:18:25PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > Also notice that current cpus were not designed to work 300 years. > > > > When we have hw designed for 50 years+, we can start to worry. > > On a related note, older technology is less sensible. My old VAX VLC4000 > from 1991 which received a small heatsink in exchange for its noisy fans > is still doing well in an closed place. I'm more worried for the EPROMs > which store the boot code. Also, I think that the RS6000 processed at > half-micron which run the Mars rovers might run for hundreds of years > at 30 MHz. Not your typical RS/6000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD6000 Without a doubt, decently built computers will easily last at least 10 years. From what I can tell, the issue here was simply OS runtime? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/