25 Jan
2010
25 Jan
'10
11:56 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 06:48:05PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
Well, usually the thing that gets in the way of high uptimes these days
in proper systems is not the machine crashing, but either upgrades or
security patches, including ones were a reboot is needed to run a new
kernel. Another thing killing uptime is the bloody hardware failing.
Modern hardware, and especially disks, still fail too damn often. Have
enough machines up and running and you'll lose a disk almost every day.
And that is with the good (high MTBF) stuff.
On Jan 25, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Alexander Schreiber
wrote:
IP address please[0], there probably were a few remote kernel bugs in
the last 3 years.
Do you really want to make a run at it?
For legal reasons: no. And if that didn't get in the way of it, not
without the express permission of the owner, for not wanting to act like
a digital hooligan.
> (come on, some one take the bait!)
No thanks. Some of us had enough religion, with last week's
Microsoft/Unix fapfest.
"Religion", of course, being the term Windows fanboys use to
dismiss
anything they don't like, even when it's presented with proof.
That's
immature, disrespectful, unprofessional, and it makes one out to be a
bit
of a dick.
Here's your proof, once again:
ns$ uptime
1:17pm up 1062 day(s), 14:23, 1 user, load average: 2.05, 1.65,
1.85 Yes, it is
nice that $unixoid_OS can stay up for 3
years, but uptime alone is mostly only good for d?cksize wars -
Really? I find uptime to be good for a few other things as well, like
keeping customers happy, keeping my job, keeping my cell phone from
ringing at 3AM, etc etc. and 3
years probably doesn't impress the old VMS hands anyway. ;-)
Being an old VMS hand myself, I think it's only a moderately
impressive uptime, but I myself am not actually impressed at all,
because that's the kind of reliability I demand from my equipment. Amazingly, I also expect my car to not randomly
stall or catch on fire
while I'm driving down the road.
Different rules apply there. Cars randomly catching on fire tends to be
expensive for the manufacturer, disks dying after two years doesn't,
usually.
Regards,
Alex.
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