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Subject: Re: Uptime record?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970117083454.8089C-100000@mucket> from Julian Jenkins at "Jan 17, 97 08:39:31 am"
To: julianj@vast.unsw.edu.au (Julian Jenkins)
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 09:31:45 -0600 (CST)
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Julian Jenkins writes:
>
>> FreeBSD iof 1.1.5.1(RELEASE) GENERICAH#0 i386
>>
>> Welcome to FreeBSD!
>>
>> bash$ uptime
>>  3:11pm  up 460 days,  9:20,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>> bash$
>
> This should somehow be merged into the effort to convince commercial
> companies that we have a good OS that is being discussed in a nother
> thread. Could we put a top 10 on the web pages somewhere? Does anyone
> know how this would compare with what workstaton vendors products can
> achieve?

I think most UNIX flavours can achieve this kind of uptime.  It's more
related to the environment than the OS.  Note that this machine only
went down because of a power cut.  And, of course, it's running 1.1.5,
because that was the latest available when it was last booted.  Most
people upgrade their systems more often than this machine has been up.

What would be interesting to see would be the number of panics.  I
think FreeBSD would do quite well there, but unfortunately it's
difficult to get concrete figures.

Greg