Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:00:29 -0400 (EDT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: mika ruohotie <bsdchat@shadows.aeon.net> Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uptime on hub.freebsd.org Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970919122818.22049G-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199709191621.TAA23750@shadows.aeon.net>
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, mika ruohotie wrote: > > > 11:42AM up 100 days, 14:29, 10 users, load averages: 0.41, 0.44, 0.47 > > 10:01AM up 279 days, 19:56, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > just think about all those bugs and security holes in both systems... > > starting from procfs thing. > > i prefer my machines up to date, since rebooting new kernel > takes machine off for just a minute or two. That's great for non-production machines that don't need 24/7 uptime, but this server requires that level of uptime. A minute or two can lead to even longer if that new kernel has the slightly bug in it, something I experienced with a 'stable' kernel on a 'not-so-stable' machine awhile back :( Marc G. Fournier scrappy@hub.org Systems Administrator @ hub.org scrappy@freebsd.org
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