From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 3 20:46:55 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 66BFA16A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:46:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE5143D5E for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:46:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC7669A71; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:46:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:46:53 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Hugo Silva" Message-Id: <20040903164653.5f9c14a5.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <50303.81.84.174.8.1094232129.squirrel@81.84.174.8> References: <8F6BD2D2-FD85-11D8-8EBC-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk> <20040903105509.3b70cfff.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <24B944B3F6EFB6C32F1D5868@utd49554.utdallas.edu> <50303.81.84.174.8.1094232129.squirrel@81.84.174.8> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 20:46:55 -0000 "Hugo Silva" wrote: > I've had a 4.8 server with 280 days uptime, then the motherboard burned :/ > > I try never to reboot my servers, only when critical security updates are > issued. The reason for this is I work with shell providers mostly, and the > uptime is a big factor for the clients. It's interesting that the software is more reliable than the hardware. This comes up on the PostgreSQL lists a lot. A vast majority of the data corruption problems that people report turn out to be hardware failures. PostgreSQL is actually several orders of magnitude more reliable than the average box it runs on. FreeBSD is the same way, in my experience. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com