From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 3 15:32:12 2004 Return-Path: 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 9365716A4CF for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:32:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.utdallas.edu (smtp1.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77AB743D54 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:32:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd49554 (utd49554.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.85]) by smtp1.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A43389208 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 10:32:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 10:32:13 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <24B944B3F6EFB6C32F1D5868@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040903105509.3b70cfff.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <8F6BD2D2-FD85-11D8-8EBC-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk> <20040903105509.3b70cfff.wmoran@potentialtech.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:32:12 -0000 --On Friday, September 03, 2004 10:55:09 AM -0400 Bill Moran wrote: > > Most of the servers I manage (which are all intended for 24/7 access) > see about 3 months between reboots. That's an average. Some servers > are more aggresively updated than others, and are rebooted more often. > > The fun part (for me) is that this is all _scheduled_ downtime. For > the potentialtech.com server (for example) has about 3 hours of > unscheduled downtime since Jan 1. And that downtime is the result > of a failed UPS at the colo facility. It has 0 unscheduled downtime > due to software issues. > Well, if you're ruling out scheduled downtime, I have a box that's never been down since it was purchased four years ago. :-) 'Course it started out as a RH 7.2 box, and now it's a FreeBSD 4.9 box, but it's never had a single minute of unscheduled downtime. :-) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/