Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:06:06 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> Cc: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 215 day uptime on 2.2.2 Message-ID: <19980220190606.03679@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <199802202131.OAA17926@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 02:31:44PM -0700 References: <199802202037.MAA23677@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net> <199802202131.OAA17926@harmony.village.org>
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On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 02:31:44PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <199802202037.MAA23677@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net> Ulf
> Zimmermann writes:
> : I had a machine with 2.2.2R with a load of 1 to 2 for > 250 day, 1 week
> : ago we had a poweroutage of over 3 hours, so the UPS run out of battery :-(
>
> However, I have seen VMS machines that have been up for years (at
> least a 4 digit uptime in the show system output). And someone posted
> an uptinme in the multiple years for some BSD or SYSV based machine
> last time the "my machine has been up longer than your machine" thread
> came through town.
I find that in general VMS and most UNIX systems, once setup
and working, almost never go down except to replace flakey
hardware. And if you've got a real machine, even that doesn't
do anything :-)
mmayo:{6}/home/mmayo % uname
AIX
mmayo:{7}/home/mmayo % uptime
06:54PM up 801 days, 7:47, 3 users, load average: 3.02, 2.26, 2.24
This is an AIX 3.2.5 machine who's only purpose in life is to do
Oracle... It's pounded very hard, with huge disk IO, and in the
2.5 years of so I've been using it, 3 SCSI disks have gone belly
up, and over 120 GB of extra disks have been added. And it's
never gone down once! Hey, if IBM can pull it off, that says something!
:-)
-Mark
> Warner
>
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