Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:49:59 +0100 From: lars <lars@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...s Message-ID: <43F4F387.3010908@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <20060216173425.T60635@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060216005036.L60635@ganymede.hub.org> <20060216053725.GB15586@parts-unknown.org> <20060216085304.GA52806@storage.mine.nu> <20060216121442.X60635@ganymede.hub.org> <43F4ACC5.1040200@gmx.at> <20060216154733.D60635@ganymede.hub.org> <43F4EBA7.9070804@gmx.at> <20060216173425.T60635@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, lars wrote: > >> Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> Wait, I think we are talking about two different things ... I'm not >>> looking at 'how long its been up', I'm looking at % of time its been >>> up ... rebooting a server once a month to upgrade it, even if its >>> down for 5min, is about 99.989% uptime, which is a good number, but >>> the OS is still up to date ... >>> >>> The 'metric' one should be looking at is how *much* the server is up, >>> not how *long* ... >> Ok, I see what you're getting at. >> "Uptime since first start-up ever", right? >> >> IMHO this should be changed from >> uptime in days|hours|minutes|seconds to >> availability in percent. > > http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes/viewhost/?1465 : > > Availability: 99.853% Best Uptime: 52d 15h 1min Total Uptime: 74d 10h 39min Average Uptime: 37d 5h 19min Total Downtime: 2h 37min Availability: 99.853% So we're back at availability :-)
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