Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:35:02 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: lars <lars@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...s Message-ID: <20060216173425.T60635@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <43F4EBA7.9070804@gmx.at> References: <20060216005036.L60635@ganymede.hub.org> <20060216053725.GB15586@parts-unknown.org> <20060216085304.GA52806@storage.mine.nu> <20060216121442.X60635@ganymede.hub.org> <43F4ACC5.1040200@gmx.at> <20060216154733.D60635@ganymede.hub.org> <43F4EBA7.9070804@gmx.at>
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, lars wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> Wait, I think we are talking about two different things ... I'm not looking >> at 'how long its been up', I'm looking at % of time its been up ... >> rebooting a server once a month to upgrade it, even if its down for 5min, >> is about 99.989% uptime, which is a good number, but the OS is still up to >> date ... >> >> The 'metric' one should be looking at is how *much* the server is up, not >> how *long* ... > Ok, I see what you're getting at. > "Uptime since first start-up ever", right? > > IMHO this should be changed from > uptime in days|hours|minutes|seconds to > availability in percent. http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes/viewhost/?1465 : Availability: 99.853% ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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