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Re: [WriteLog] How often during a typical contest weekend do you have to

To: "W. Wright, W5XD" <w5xd@writelog.com>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] How often during a typical contest weekend do you have to restart WriteLog?
From: Jim Rhodes <jimk0xu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:07:49 -0500
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Not very often. And then usually it is because I had to restart the
computer, and that usually has nothing to do with WriteLog. This year at
Field Day one of the laptops locked up, but I don't remember if it was
WriteLog related.

Jim K0XU Sent from my Xoom tablet
On Jul 11, 2011 10:40 PM, "W. Wright, W5XD" <w5xd@writelog.com> wrote:
> I would like to estimate a number for how much users are forced to restart
> WriteLog in a typical operation. Can you offer a statistic for this metric
> for your own operations:
>
> the average number of hours between forced restarts of WriteLog
>
> The word "forced" means that you didn't want to restart, but you could not
> continue otherwise. I don't really want 2nd hand info--please don't guess
> someone else's number. If you voluntarily shut down for breaks, that
doesn't
> count. For the purpose of this exercise, the highest possible number is
> 48--the maximum number of operating hours in most contests.
>
> It has occured to me, for example, that WriteLog's journalling is so
> reliable and efficient that crashes happen all the time and it recovers so
> fast that nobody bothers to report crashes and hangs.
>
> Thanks for any comments.
> Wayne, W5XD
>
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