Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 15:57:16 +1300 From: David Preece <davep@afterswish.com> To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD in good standing in netcraft survey Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.1.20001102155151.00a382b0@mail.afterswish.com> In-Reply-To: <20001101150807.A5972@peorth.iteration.net> References: <5.0.0.25.1.20001102095240.00a3a440@mail.afterswish.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011011055120.1372-100000@oxygen.americanisp.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011012144110.41998-100000@server.wes.mee.co m> <5.0.0.25.1.20001102095240.00a3a440@mail.afterswish.com>
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At 15:08 1/11/00 -0600, you wrote: >[moved to -chat] > >On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:57:03AM +1300, David Preece scribbled: >| BTW, we didn't fare very well at all in the top *average* uptimes. Sun, > >Of course Sun would fare better in top average uptime. :) >PC servers don't get to have battery banks and generators Well, debateable, where do we draw the line between a UPS and a generator, and the same thing being inside the box? I do see your point though, it just makes me more aware of what a bogus number uptime is. >, nor >are they able to hotswap CPU's.... Well, no. But you can drop a cluster of them behind a load balancer and get an overall effect that's identical in all ways *apart* from actual uptime. In this configuration you can, of course, upgrade OS's without breaking service... They can hotswap processors? Blimey. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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