[Linux] Re: Linux kicking Win2k's Ass.

[Horan, Brian]

The only problem with that, is this:

While (true)   which would create an infinite loop, because the boolean
value 'true' always tests to true, I know with winblows this isn't always
the case, but that is what you get when you pay for your kernel :-).....
Loops are created so that they do not use more memory, reason being if you
had a script that looped for each line of text in a text file, doing some
parsing or something like that.  Working on a file of size larger than the
amount of RAM and/or swap space you have would obliterate your machine.

For instance, I have a small 3 database system set up at home on one
machine, and AMD k6 -thanks Gerry! And what this system does is each
database (Postgres, Sybase, and MySQL) reads data from the one behind it in
a chain, updating itself, what this amounts to is a completely useless
'infinite' loop.....and it has been running for 67days non-stop.........why?
I don't know.....but it does..


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	I'm guessing if you try it out you'll see it will terminate. I don't
know
	the low-level of it but I am guessing the memory allocs for each
loop run
	into each other eventually causing it to dump.
	 - Josh

	On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

	> 
	> This actually orignitates as a joke Linus did during his keynote
at Linux
	> expo 4years (I think, they all blend togeather) ago. :P
	> 
	> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Brian Horan wrote:
	> 
	> > that just how good linux is!
	> > 
	> > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, CheezCake wrote:
	> > 
	> > > Hello!,
	> > > 
	> > > Is it me or does an infinite loop not have an end?
	> > > Therefore how can sometihng execute in a finite amount
	> > > of
	> > > time that has no end?
	> > > 
	> > > Love,
	> > > CheezCake.
	> 
	> 
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