It finally happened

[Fett101]

After 43 days of operation, my Win 98 server went BSOD. Actually though... It's still running, but won't connect to the net... Not a very useful  server that way though.

I think I'll put XP on it and see how long that goes.

[slave]

Save money; make it a Linux server.

[dbl221]

I hate to tell you but win98 has a known memory leak...which by the way Micr$haft did not fix in ME.  Frankly I am shocked you made it run that long.

[rtgwbmsr]

Yep. The 43 or 47 (can't remember) days of uptime bug. That just shows you that Windows REALLY sucks, and can't stay up for more than 1.5 months.

EDIT: Ahh, there it is. Win98 crashes 49.7 days (if you make it that far):
This site has a description and patch (if you don't have M$ blocked)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;216641

[ December 17, 2002: Message edited by: The Muffin Man ]

[Doctor V]

If you're gonna put up a new server, at least throw Mandrake or somthing on there.  No sense in throwing away money on WP.  

[Calum]

fetid103 just likes to post stuff on here about how he's using windows all the time to try and wind people up.

shame it fails!  

[Fett101]

No winding this time. I'm quite amazed that it lasted that long too. I also knew of the 49 day bug long beforehand.

[Calum]

yes, but the 49 day bug is quite patently not at the root of the problem this time, unless you missed count by six days!

[solo]

windows 9x doesnt have a way of knowing how long the computer has been up does it? xp kind of does if you have a cable connection you can check the connection duration er whatever. of course logically on *nix just type 'uptime' at a shell   .

[dishawjp]

There is an "uptime.exe" for Windows. I actually installed it on one of my windows computers a while back.  Do a search for "uptime.exe."  Anyway, my Linux server had an uptime of over 350 days until I brought it down to add another hard drive. The last time it went down before that was due to a power failure.  It isn't a "mission critical" server, just a toy for me and some friends to play with.

Current uptime is:

[dishawjp@ip4 dishawjp]$ uptime
  7:05pm  up 51 days, 15:51,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
 
Ok, only 51 days so far.  Give me another few months.  It'll look better then.

Jim