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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:38:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: Long uptime 5.2.1 server
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> We've got a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 server that's been up for 460
> days now, with pretty heavy use the whole time (70GB+ per day http
> traffic, 140 hits/sec, etc).
>
> Before we give it a reboot to upgrade, does anyone want to see any
> counters or stats or anything? I ask because it's sometimes handy to
> see if your "shouldn't ever happen, but might given enough tries"
> corner cases ever got used.

My hat is off to you for thinking (and doing) of offering
this info to the community.

As a former grad student who had to beg and plead for this
kind of info, I wish more people would share this kind of info.

-Dan