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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 2000 15:57:16 +1300
From:      David Preece <davep@afterswish.com>
To:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD in good standing in netcraft survey
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.1.20001102155151.00a382b0@mail.afterswish.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001101150807.A5972@peorth.iteration.net>
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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



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