From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 21:35:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38EC16A420 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:35:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C64D43D45 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:35:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBEDD62C8B3; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:35:01 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 98080-09; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:35:01 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACF262C892; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:35:01 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 671EA371CF; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:35:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635D835263; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:35:02 -0400 (AST) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:35:02 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: lars In-Reply-To: <43F4EBA7.9070804@gmx.at> Message-ID: <20060216173425.T60635@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> <43F4EBA7.9070804@gmx.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...s 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, 16 Feb 2006 21:35:03 -0000 On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, lars wrote: > 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. http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes/viewhost/?1465 : Availability: 99.853% ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664