From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 02:02:49 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 322671065686 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 02:02:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reese@library4science.com) Received: from panther.adeptscience.co.uk (panther.adeptscience.co.uk [193.116.153.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26038FC28 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 02:02:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reese@library4science.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 m98J1sR9028445 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:01:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from reese@library4science.com) From: "Charles Reese" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:01:39 -0400 Message-ID: <48ECCB53.31714.2A4DC246@reese.library4science.com> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <48ECF908.5080100@gmail.com> References: <20081008164540.GA78500@ozzmosis.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Charles Reese List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:02:49 -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" :-)