From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 02:02:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55FD91065687 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 02:02:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reese@adeptscience.com) Received: from panther.adeptscience.co.uk (panther.adeptscience.co.uk [193.116.153.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B298FC1D for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 02:02:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reese@adeptscience.com) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (dynamic-acs-24-144-162-239.zoominternet.net [24.144.162.239]) by panther.adeptscience.co.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m98HJQge019524 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:19:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from reese@adeptscience.com) From: reese@adeptscience.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:19:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <48ECB34F.17747.29EFF3A0@reese.adeptscience.com> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20081008164540.GA78500@ozzmosis.com> References: <20081008162153.GA80866@icarus.home.lan> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:02:48 -0000 Well sometimes you don't need to upgrade and you aren't connected to the internet directly. elephant: {25} uptime 5:54PM up 1756 days, 7:07, 2 users, load averages: 1.04, 1.01, 1.00 elephant 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 This machine is semi-retired now but for its first three years it was the database server (ads, reg, hit logging etc.) for a large website (> 300,000 pages/day). It also handled the queries for a monthly reports server that created detailed reports for about 5000 companies that had content on the site. I didn't keep track of the connections then but its replacement is doing 28,527 conn/hr. This was on an internal network that was firewalled from everything but port 3306 on the webserver IP, and a couple admin IPs. It was a big exercise to replace it as the databases were quite large (48G) and it took a good fraction of an hour to make the occasional snapshot for starting a new replicator when needed. FreeBSD really is one of the most stable OSs even under a pretty good load. Cheers, Charlie "One OS to rule them all" :-) On 9 Oct 2008 at 3:45, andrew clarke wrote: > On Wed 2008-10-08 09:21:53 UTC-0700, Jeremy Chadwick (koitsu@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > > > I don't want to rain on your parade, but uptime ultimately means squat. > > Agreed. > > > I can install FreeBSD on a box under my desk at home, on a UPS, and > > leave it powered on for the next 30 years -- it tells people absolutely > > nothing about the reliability of the OS, or what kind of stress it's > > undergone during that time. > > I'd be impressed if an ordinary PC lasted 30 years continuously > running. Even if the HDD is solid-state you still have to think about > other moving parts, particularly the CPU and PSU cooling fans. I've > had a bad run with PSU fans recently. > > Is FreeBSD 7.1 2038-proof? ;-) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem > > (I wonder what version of FreeBSD will be the latest in 2038?) > > > Additionally, long uptimes also reflect directly on sysadmins: I take it > > to mean "the administrator is very lazy". There are security holes > > (kernel or userland/library-level) which are exploitable on boxes which > > have been up for that kind of time. I'm also making the assumption that > > said boxes have Internet connectivity, hence my point. > > Yes, my initial thought was "what, you don't use freebsd-update?". > > Regards > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ >