From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 8:12:23 2003 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 531F637B401; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 08:12:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts12.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D446D43EC2; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 08:12:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmagda@magda.ca) Received: from number6.magda.ca ([64.229.224.16]) by tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030104161209.LCAW26669.tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@number6.magda.ca>; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 11:12:09 -0500 Received: from number6.magda.ca (localhost.magda.ca [127.0.0.1]) by number6.magda.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h04GC9kL000385 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 4 Jan 2003 11:12:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmagda@magda.ca) Received: (from dmagda@localhost) by number6.magda.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h04GC8Sg000382; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 11:12:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmagda@number6.magda.ca) To: Dave Uhring Cc: Marcus Reid , Mike Hogsett , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability References: <200212170023.gBH0Nvlu000764@beast.csl.sri.com> <20030103000232.GA52181@blazingdot.com> <200301021809.11132.duhring@charter.net> Reply-To: dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca From: David Magda Date: 04 Jan 2003 11:12:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200301021809.11132.duhring@charter.net> Message-ID: <86heco99nr.fsf@number6.magda.ca> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Uhring writes: > You do realize, I hope, that Linux and Solaris roll over their uptimes > at something like 492 days. There was a thread on comp.unix.solaris with people reporting uptimes greater than 492 days. Some with three years uptime (1000 days). There was a bug in Solaris pre-2.6 that prevented the reporting of uptime greater then 248 days. I am unsure about Linux. There's a report of a VMS machine running for about 7 years: http://groups.google.com/groups?&th=be68d05baa08c324&seekm=asp586%243i0g%241%40node21.cwnet.roc.gblx.net#link3 (Sorry for line wrap.) -- David Magda Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message