From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 21:49:58 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 DAFCB16A420 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:49:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FBA843D6E for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:49:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2006 21:49:53 -0000 Received: from 43.85.77.83.cust.bluewin.ch (EHLO [192.168.1.10]) [83.77.85.43] by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 16 Feb 2006 22:49:53 +0100 X-Authenticated: #912863 Message-ID: <43F4F387.3010908@gmx.at> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:49:59 +0100 From: lars User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.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> <20060216173425.T60635@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060216173425.T60635@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ...s X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lars@gmx.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:49:59 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 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% Best Uptime: 52d 15h 1min Total Uptime: 74d 10h 39min Average Uptime: 37d 5h 19min Total Downtime: 2h 37min Availability: 99.853% So we're back at availability :-)