Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 09:32:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: ken@gt.ed.net (Kenneth Merry) Cc: dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are we still having an uptime contest? Message-ID: <199608091432.JAA19933@luke.pmr.com> In-Reply-To: <199608091255.IAA15685@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu> from Kenneth Merry at "Aug 9, 96 08:55:52 am"
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Kenneth Merry wrote:
>
> David Kelly wrote...
> > Its a lowly 486DX33 w/ 8M that's not asked to do too much. The motherboard
> > finally acted up bad enough to force me to realize that it was broken for
> > bus master DMA as an Adaptec 1542CF and UltraStor 14F screwed up the same
> > way. So about 100 days ago out came the SCSI and this is what I got (with
> > the help of a UPS):
> >
> > PeeCee: {1001} uname -a
> > FreeBSD PeeCee.tbe.com 2.1-STABLE FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 19
> > 09:44:43 CDT
> > 1996 dkelly@PeeCee.tbe.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PEECEE i386
> > PeeCee: {1002} uptime
> > 4:59PM up 100 days, 7:18, 6 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > PeeCee: {1003}
> >
> > Tomcat1.tbe.com/Irix and PeeCee/FreeBSD were having an uptime contest.
> > Today PeeCee won. Don't think I'll bother upgrading its FreeBSD until I
> > have to shoot it to put it out of my misery.
>
> I was going to wait until it hit 130, but what the heck:
>
> {ulc199:/disk2/home/ken:1:0} uname -a
> FreeBSD ulc199.residence.gatech.edu 2.1.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Mar 16 00:56:47 EST 1996 ken@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu:/disk2/src/sys/compile/pythes i386
>
> {ulc199:/disk2/home/ken:2:0} uptime
> 8:45AM up 126 days, 12:24, 2 users, load averages: 0.05, 0.05, 0.04
>
>
> Hardware info:
>
> 486/66
> 20MB RAM
> Buslogic 445 with:
> Micropolis 1936 (3 gig)
> Fujitsu 1 gig
> NE2000 clone
> APC UPS (I think it's a 400-and-something)
>
> It gets a decent amount of traffic:
>
> Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
> ed0 1500 <Link>00.40.05.11.4b.60 43334276 662 31919680 0 16228
> ed0 1500 199.77.162 ulc199 43334276 662 31919680 0 16228
>
> There are about 100 accounts on the machine. Duties include shell
> server/gateway, DNS service, HTTP, and FTP. (also a number of mailing lists)
>
> It survived a 1-hour power outage this past Spring that took out
> most of the campus, and it survived the entire duration of the Olympics
> inside the Village Secure Zone at Georgia Tech.
>
> Not bad, 'eh? :)
>
Good, but not good enough :-)
Here's the vitals on our nameserver/gateway here which interfaces us to
the Internet through an Ascend Pipline50:
FreeBSD rancor.pmr.com 2.1-STABLE FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 27 09:21:05 CST 1995 root@rancor.pmr.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/RANCOR i386
9:20AM up 153 days, 4:34, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll
ed0 1500 <Link>00.00.c0.8c.ef.43 79033542 1582 119344451 768 482580
ed0 1500 pmr.com ns 79033542 1582 119344451 768 482580
ed1 1500 <Link>00.00.c0.94.11.55 116957722 0 72106891 788 41822
ed1 1500 199.33.242. damon.com 116957722 0 72106891 788 41822
This an 8mb 486/66. Admittedly with fairly low system loads.
--
Bob Willcox politics, n:
bob@luke.pmr.com A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
Austin, TX principles. The conduct of public affairs for private
advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce
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