From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 12:13:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web11706.mail.yahoo.com (web11706.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF6CE37B424 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 12:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tperlin@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010521191308.52272.qmail@web11706.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.200.148.220] by web11706.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 21 May 2001 12:13:08 PDT Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:13:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Erlin Subject: RE: uptime limits To: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Wouldn't a more meaningful measure be downtime? Has anyone put together info on how much downtime, as a percentage, is required for regular upgrades/maintanence for different OSes. That would allow one to distinguish between downtime that's expected and downtime that isn't (e.g. crashes). I would think that would be an important distinction. --Tim --- "SILVER, MICHAEL A" wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message