Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:16:23 +0100 From: lars <lars@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...s Message-ID: <43F4EBA7.9070804@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <20060216154733.D60635@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060216005036.L60635@ganymede.hub.org> <20060216053725.GB15586@parts-unknown.org> <20060216085304.GA52806@storage.mine.nu> <20060216121442.X60635@ganymede.hub.org> <43F4ACC5.1040200@gmx.at> <20060216154733.D60635@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Wait, I think we are talking about two different things ... I'm not > looking at 'how long its been up', I'm looking at % of time its been up > ... rebooting a server once a month to upgrade it, even if its down for > 5min, is about 99.989% uptime, which is a good number, but the OS is > still up to date ... > > The 'metric' one should be looking at is how *much* the server is up, > not how *long* ... Ok, I see what you're getting at. "Uptime since first start-up ever", right? IMHO this should be changed from uptime in days|hours|minutes|seconds to availability in percent. And here "availability" is defined as ports/sysutils/uptimec being able to send it's status to some recipient.
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