From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 13:06:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1035B16A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:06:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B114A43D2D for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:06:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [192.168.0.42] (unknown [192.168.0.42]) by mail.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC6F2EAF19 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:06:11 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <41DCB3C4.1070203@vilot.com> References: <20050105193119.A29486@logik.ath.cx> <41DCB3C4.1070203@vilot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:06:11 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: Uptime? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 13:06:13 -0000 On Jan 5, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Tom Vilot wrote: > Mark wrote: > >> So, we know BSD is capable of stupidly high uptime, but what >> I'd like to know is how? I mean, we all have to patch things >> now and again, recompile kernels etc. Does this mean these >> sites are running thousand-day-old unpatched kernels,... >> > > Yep!! (AFAIK) Clusters that lie about uptimes because machine A goes down but machine B still is up? It's how I thought Windows was ever on that list... :-)