From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 1 21:32:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.attica.net.nz (mail.attica.net.nz [202.180.64.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BEE037B4C5 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:32:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11701 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2000 05:32:45 -0000 Received: from 202-180-75-16.nas2.wn1.attica.net.nz (HELO davep200.afterswish.com) (202.180.75.16) by mail.attica.net.nz with SMTP; 2 Nov 2000 05:32:45 -0000 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.1.20001102155151.00a382b0@mail.afterswish.com> X-Sender: davep@mail.afterswish.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 15:57:16 +1300 To: "Michael C . Wu" From: David Preece Subject: Re: FreeBSD in good standing in netcraft survey Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20001101150807.A5972@peorth.iteration.net> References: <5.0.0.25.1.20001102095240.00a3a440@mail.afterswish.com> <5.0.0.25.1.20001102095240.00a3a440@mail.afterswish.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 15:08 1/11/00 -0600, you wrote: >[moved to -chat] > >On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:03AM +1300, David Preece scribbled: >| BTW, we didn't fare very well at all in the top *average* uptimes. Sun, > >Of course Sun would fare better in top average uptime. :) >PC servers don't get to have battery banks and generators Well, debateable, where do we draw the line between a UPS and a generator, and the same thing being inside the box? I do see your point though, it just makes me more aware of what a bogus number uptime is. >, nor >are they able to hotswap CPU's.... Well, no. But you can drop a cluster of them behind a load balancer and get an overall effect that's identical in all ways *apart* from actual uptime. In this configuration you can, of course, upgrade OS's without breaking service... They can hotswap processors? Blimey. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message