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From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
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Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Migration planning - old system to new
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Hi,

On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote:
> doing this on a new machine!  And I don't need any "migration"
> storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people!  ;)  I just
> did the first transfer of home, and it went swell:
>
how did you handle the strange group IDs?

>
> 10:56AM  up 492 days, 13:57, 2 users, load averages: 0.02,
> 0.03, 0.00

Isn't this normal for a FreeBSD machine running as a server?
>
> That's right!  Nearly 500 days!  And it was well over a two
> hundred days before that, but we had a power outage that
> outlasted the UPS.

No diesel powered generator nearby?

> 987 522 505 cpu context switches

I have had to put the spacesin to be able to read it.

I assume, the scheduler really works.

Erich