Re: Is it okay if I use a lot of while(true) loops?
On Aug 23, 1:24 pm, "Francesco S. Carta" <entul...@gmail.com> wrote:
James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com>, on 23/08/2010 05:05:46, wrote:
On Aug 23, 12:35 pm, "Francesco S. Carta"<entul...@gmail.com> wrote:
James Kanze<james.ka...@gmail.com>, on 23/08/2010 03:51:40, wrote:
On Aug 21, 4:07 pm, "Francesco S. Carta"<entul...@gmail.com> wrote:
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(On a number of these projects, we had contractual penalties for
down time---on the order of 5000 Euro per minute. Given that it
took 2 or 3 minutes to read the initial configuration from disk,
stopping the application would cost a minimum of 10 or 15
thousand Euros.)
A penalty of 5K=80 per minute of downtime? What was that, if I can be
indiscreet?
On my case, telecoms. The main backbone router for calls
entering and leaving central Germany. Or later, on an internal
project (so no real payment, but it did affect my boss' future
in the company), dynamic IP allocation for a wireless network.
Other projects have used different technics for motivation: on
a locomotive brake system, it was required that the head of
software development be present on the locomotive during
acceptance tests (which involved actually trying to apply the
brakes at speed, and did entail some risk if the program
failed).
In such a case, I suppose forcing the admin to reboot the
machine by not providing any "orderly shutdown" command seems
indeed The Way To Go ;-)
You provide an orderly shutdown command if it can do anything.
On a lot of such systems, however, there's a hot backup waiting
to take over, and it detects the absense of any activity on your
machine, so just rebooting triggers it, and you don't (and
shouldn't) do anything else.
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James Kanze