From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 11:54: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED9B37B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 11:53:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MSILVER@scana.com) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id OAA18569; Mon, 21 May 2001 14:53:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from maildmis.scana.com(161.156.248.91) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma018381; Mon, 21 May 01 14:52:41 -0400 Received: by maildmis.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 21 May 2001 14:52:40 -0400 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: uptime limits Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:52:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is mostly marketing. I sell internet gateways to small businesses and it helps to show them the netcraft survey. Although it is flawed, it does give non technical people an idea of how reliable FreeBSD is. ...Michael... -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rick Hamell Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 2:59 PM To: Jason Halbert Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: RE: uptime limits > What _is_ the big thing with uptime anyway? Yes, I am fairly > impressed with myself when I go 3 to 6 or 9 months without rebooting. > I do like upgrading my box though. Even if you have a really high > loaded web server or something, you could switch the load to another Some... mostly among the NT and Linux crowds thinks it's a big deal... (Wow! My NT-Server has been up for 35 days! :) On the same note, our company has a reboot schedule setup for 300+ NT-Servers... :) Every 30 days if it needs it or not. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message