Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:54:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> To: <bob@inu.net> Cc: <advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: top uptime! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104201151490.51666-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <3AE07CBF.13F6A56D@buckhorn.net>
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On 2001-04-20, Bob Martin scribbled: # I don't know that I really trust these uptimes all that much, except in # a general way. Also note the disclaimer "For performance reasons, we # limit this monitoring process to the most frequently requested sites." # could have more than a little to do with which OS's makes the list. I wouldn't trust them a bit... Slashdot and several other discussion boards have had nice discussions about some of the uptimes. I think they do it on pings and if anything about the server changes for some reason. Definitely doesn't work very well (invalid uptimes like: longer uptimes, etc.) if the domain is hosted behind a load balancer, proxying firewall, et al. A better way to measure uptime is to run an script on a machine that gets the output of `uptime' and sends that with an ID of the server to a central DB. -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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