Thread-ID - how much could be?

[Martin Skjöldebrand]

Unfortunately we will never know 😢

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On 12 Sep 2014 07:43, at 07:43, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
>> On 12Sep2014 11:29, Steven D'Aprano
><steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]maxint. I know that some Linux
>>> systems can have an uptime over a year, perhaps even two years, but
>I
>>> think
>>> that nearly 300 years is asking a bit much.
>>
>>
>> 2 years is nothing. Unless they have a particularly buggy kernel,
>most UNIX
>> systems, Linux included, will stay up almost indefinitely. We've
>definitely
>> had systems up for well over 2 years.
>>
>>> Your hardware probably won't
>>> keep working that long.
>>
>>
>> 300 years? Probably not. Regrettably.
>
>Once you get into the counting of years (rather than days), it's all
>down to hardware. How long before that hardware needs an upgrade? Does
>your incoming power have fail-overs? I don't currently have any
>servers with multiple power supplies, so if anything like that goes
>bung, my server's down. Doesn't matter how quickly I can bring up an
>equivalent on a different hunk of hardware, the uptime's gone.
>
>But yeah. 300 years? Good luck. I don't think anyone's ever going to
>hit that.
>
>ChrisA
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