Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:32:13 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for? Message-ID: <24B944B3F6EFB6C32F1D5868@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040903105509.3b70cfff.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <8F6BD2D2-FD85-11D8-8EBC-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk> <20040903105509.3b70cfff.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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--On Friday, September 03, 2004 10:55:09 AM -0400 Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > > Most of the servers I manage (which are all intended for 24/7 access) > see about 3 months between reboots. That's an average. Some servers > are more aggresively updated than others, and are rebooted more often. > > The fun part (for me) is that this is all _scheduled_ downtime. For > the potentialtech.com server (for example) has about 3 hours of > unscheduled downtime since Jan 1. And that downtime is the result > of a failed UPS at the colo facility. It has 0 unscheduled downtime > due to software issues. > Well, if you're ruling out scheduled downtime, I have a box that's never been down since it was purchased four years ago. :-) 'Course it started out as a RH 7.2 box, and now it's a FreeBSD 4.9 box, but it's never had a single minute of unscheduled downtime. :-) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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