From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 16:28: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55DB837B43C for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 8564 invoked by uid 0); 21 May 2001 22:10:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.67.71) by mounet.com with SMTP; 21 May 2001 22:10:31 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Rick Hamell" , "Jason Halbert" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" Subject: RE: uptime limits Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:26:12 -0400 Message-ID: <002d01c0e24d$6c576580$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal 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 > -----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. :) Well, with NT this is a requirement, sadly. Given the numerous problems that I've seen with extended uptimes on them. Problems with the swap file being corrupted and fragmented, and the problems with various services which have memory leaks and/or memory allocation problems... --- Andy "Give 10,000 monkeys 10,000 NT servers to run... and they'll do a better job than most MCSEs" -- unknown (former NT now) Unix Admin... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message