From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 20 22:04:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA07349 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:04:24 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA07343 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:04:23 -0700 Received: from localhost.v-site.net (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA01787; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:03:37 -0700 Message-Id: <199507210503.WAA01787@rah.star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rah.star-gate.com: Host localhost.v-site.net didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: Warner Losh cc: Juha Inkari , freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: uptimes (was Re: What people are doing with FBSD) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:40:31 MDT." <199507210440.WAA21966@rover.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:03:37 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Warner Losh said: > : How does one measure OS stability anyway ? If we compare uptime > : values, the system must operate under a load that can be reproduced on > : several test runs. And stability would be better expressed with a > : figure that depends on the number of tasks performed, than with a > : figure that gets better each second the system sits idle. > > I've seen uptimes in the 300-400 day range for a couple of Sun 3's > running SunOS 3.5 that were on a UPS about five or six years ago. > With FreeBSD 1.1.5 , on one of my contracts my system at work stayed up for three months till it was time to rebuild the kernel for ip multicasting stuff and audio stuff... i read mail ftp stuff, compiled X , isode stuff , used the system for work. Used NFS to get more disk space out of my sun workstation... Alll in all the system was rock solid.... Enjoy, Amancio