In the Sybase error log you can find information indicating how many times the server has been restarted since the installation. I have never seen this before. I also remember that many errors are generated, because the number a programmer wanted to save in the variable was too big in comparison to the variable type. So I started if this can bring some bad consequences. Will my servers ever breach the maximal value that can be stored in Sybase? What will happen then? Will server stop working or only the counter will start from 0 again? Should we be afraid like about Millennium Bug in 2000 or not?
The line looks like:
The displayed here
Boot Count value has type unsigned int, so the maximal value is
4 294 967 296
This causes some limitations to number of restarts:
- if you perform restart every day than you are allowed to do this only 11 767 033 years
- if you perform restart every hour than you are allowed to do this only 490 293 years
- if you perform restart every minute, than you are allowed to do this only 8 171 years
Do you see any problems with this? Can you advise?
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