Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:03:37 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Juha Inkari <inkari@snakemail.hut.fi>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: uptimes (was Re: What people are doing with FBSD) Message-ID: <199507210503.WAA01787@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 1995 22:40:31 MDT." <199507210440.WAA21966@rover.village.org>
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>>> Warner Losh said: > : 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. > With FreeBSD 1.1.5 , on one of my contracts my system at work stayed up for three months till it was time to rebuild the kernel for ip multicasting stuff and audio stuff... i read mail ftp stuff, compiled X , isode stuff , used the system for work. Used NFS to get more disk space out of my sun workstation... Alll in all the system was rock solid.... Enjoy, Amancio
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