Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 23:04:22 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Wow! Message-ID: <199510190504.XAA12151@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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I'm getting ready to take-down my 2.0R system and upgrade it to 2.1, so I started looking through some of my logfiles. Here's an intersting note: I've got my internet connection setup to auto-dial my office if/when the link goes down. I power-cycled the modem this evening since I noticed it was starting to get sluggish (I finally had some time to do some Surfing tonight). Unfortunately, my USR doesn't re-train back up if the line gets bad. The cool things is that I noticed that the last time I had to dial work due to a modem carrier drop was 28 days ago, and that was because there was a power failure at work. Sep 20 14:00:51 trout chat[15242]: send (??????) Oct 18 22:49:25 trout chat[10025]: abort on (NO CARRIER) This is on a standard POTS line in Montana with 2 USR-28.8K Sportsters at both ends. Pretty amazing that the line hasn't went down in the entire months time except when I shut it down. Next, here are the stats from my box: trout:/usr/user/nate/Mail % uname -a FreeBSD trout.sri.MT.net 2.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE #0: \ Fri Mar 31 22:08:04 MST 1995 \ root@trout.sri.MT.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/TROUT1 i386 trout:/usr/user/nate/Mail % uptime 10:55PM up 67 days, 5:58, 2 users, load averages: 0.19, 0.21, 0.15 This box has been on the Internet the entire time, and every night I do a sup to update the bits from freefall and update my tree. I've done tons of builds, tests, and when I have company they use NetScape to 'Surf the Web' on this box. It isn't ftp.cdrom.com, but it gets quite a beating for a single-user system. It's been rock-solid (even though I'm running 2.0R with minor tweaks by me) and I *hate* to upgrade it, but I want some of the new features of 2.1 including the newer VM stuff, plus all the fixes. Kudos to all of those involved. I still have a hard-time imagining I don't have to pay for this, and that it runs so much better than the SCO boxes we pay monster bucks at work with. Thanks folks for all of the hard work! Nate
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