From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 20 21:40:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA06701 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 21:40:57 -0700 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA06695 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 21:40:54 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA21966; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:40:32 -0600 Message-Id: <199507210440.WAA21966@rover.village.org> To: Juha Inkari Subject: Re: uptimes (was Re: What people are doing with FBSD) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 21 Jul 1995 02:36:55 +0200 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:40:31 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : How does one measure OS stability anyway ? If we compare uptime : values, the system must operate under a load that can be reproduced on : several test runs. And stability would be better expressed with a : figure that depends on the number of tasks performed, than with a : figure that gets better each second the system sits idle. I've seen uptimes in the 300-400 day range for a couple of Sun 3's running SunOS 3.5 that were on a UPS about five or six years ago. Warner