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Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 - long uptimes...
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At 7:27 PM -0500 1/9/05, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
>My main "production-system" use of FreeBSD is for a chat server,
>which needs to be up all the time or everyone stops "chatting" and
>starts yelling at me.  The longest uptimes I've had so far are:
>
>*     373 days 10 hours   (a 6-hour long power outage)
>*     599 days 14 hours   (a UPS melt-down failure)
>*     497 days 18 hours   (hard disk failure)

I should note that the above uptimes were running 4.x systems (and
the first one *might* even be a 3.x system).  While I had forgotten
that subject was talking about "FreeBSD 5.3", I obviously have not
been running 5.3 for the past four years!

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu