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Date:      Fri, 9 Aug 1996 09:32:18 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com>
To:        ken@gt.ed.net (Kenneth Merry)
Cc:        dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Are we still having an uptime contest?
Message-ID:  <199608091432.JAA19933@luke.pmr.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608091255.IAA15685@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu> from Kenneth Merry at "Aug 9, 96 08:55:52 am"

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Kenneth Merry wrote:
> 
> David Kelly wrote...
> > Its a lowly 486DX33 w/ 8M that's not asked to do too much. The motherboard
> > finally acted up bad enough to force me to realize that it was broken for
> > bus master DMA as an Adaptec 1542CF and UltraStor 14F screwed up the same
> > way. So about 100 days ago out came the SCSI and this is what I got (with
> > the help of a UPS):
> > 
> > PeeCee: {1001} uname -a
> > FreeBSD PeeCee.tbe.com 2.1-STABLE FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 19
> > 09:44:43 CDT
> >  1996     dkelly@PeeCee.tbe.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PEECEE  i386
> > PeeCee: {1002} uptime
> >  4:59PM  up 100 days,  7:18, 6 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > PeeCee: {1003}
> > 
> > Tomcat1.tbe.com/Irix and PeeCee/FreeBSD were having an uptime contest.
> > Today PeeCee won. Don't think I'll bother upgrading its FreeBSD until I
> > have to shoot it to put it out of my misery.
> 
> 	I was going to wait until it hit 130, but what the heck:
> 
> {ulc199:/disk2/home/ken:1:0} uname -a
> FreeBSD ulc199.residence.gatech.edu 2.1.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Mar 16 00:56:47 EST 1996 ken@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu:/disk2/src/sys/compile/pythes  i386
> 
> {ulc199:/disk2/home/ken:2:0} uptime
>  8:45AM  up 126 days, 12:24, 2 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.05, 0.04
> 
> 
> Hardware info:  
> 
> 486/66
> 20MB RAM
> Buslogic 445 with: 
>    Micropolis 1936 (3 gig)
>    Fujitsu 1 gig 
> NE2000 clone 
> APC UPS  (I think it's a 400-and-something)
> 
> 	It gets a decent amount of traffic:
> 
> Name  Mtu   Network     Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> ed0   1500  <Link>00.40.05.11.4b.60     43334276   662 31919680     0 16228
> ed0   1500  199.77.162  ulc199          43334276   662 31919680     0 16228
> 
> 	There are about 100 accounts on the machine.  Duties include shell
> server/gateway, DNS service, HTTP, and FTP.  (also a number of mailing lists)
> 
> 	It survived a 1-hour power outage this past Spring that took out
> most of the campus, and it survived the entire duration of the Olympics
> inside the Village Secure Zone at Georgia Tech.
> 
> Not bad, 'eh? :)
> 

Good, but not good enough  :-)

Here's the vitals on our nameserver/gateway here which interfaces us to
the Internet through an Ascend Pipline50:

FreeBSD rancor.pmr.com 2.1-STABLE FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 27 09:21:05 CST 1995     root@rancor.pmr.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/RANCOR  i386
 9:20AM  up 153 days,  4:34, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Name  Mtu   Network     Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
ed0   1500  <Link>00.00.c0.8c.ef.43     79033542  1582 119344451   768 482580
ed0   1500  pmr.com     ns              79033542  1582 119344451   768 482580
ed1   1500  <Link>00.00.c0.94.11.55     116957722     0 72106891   788 41822
ed1   1500  199.33.242. damon.com       116957722     0 72106891   788 41822

This an 8mb 486/66.  Admittedly with fairly low system loads.

-- 
Bob Willcox	       politics, n:
bob@luke.pmr.com         A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
Austin, TX               principles.  The conduct of public affairs for private
                         advantage.       -- Ambrose Bierce



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