[WriteLog] How often during a typical contest weekend do you haveto restart WriteLog?

Chuck w5pr at swbell.net
Tue Jul 12 07:13:11 PDT 2011


I don't remember ever having a forced restart.

Chuck W5PR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W. Wright, W5XD" <w5xd at writelog.com>
To: <writelog at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 10:40 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] How often during a typical contest weekend do you haveto 
restart WriteLog?


>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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