Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:16:37 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: lars <lars@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ... Message-ID: <20060216121442.X60635@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060216085304.GA52806@storage.mine.nu> References: <20060216005036.L60635@ganymede.hub.org> <20060216053725.GB15586@parts-unknown.org> <20060216085304.GA52806@storage.mine.nu>
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Actually, in my case, I'm more interested in % uptime then long uptimes, something that this site does keep track of ... On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, lars wrote: > David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:01:33 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> >>> FreeBSD is showing 4th place right now behind Linux, SunOS and Netware for >>> Average Uptimes ... with ours being an average of 120 days >>> >> Which shows yet again how utterly worthless this kind of rating is. >> >> So here's the problem as *I* see it: Do you participate in such >> silliness for dubious PR value at the risk of supporting the use of >> invalid methodology, or do you refuse at the risk of appearing to have >> something to hide? Now, the way I frame this makes pretty clear *my* >> preference, but possibly others have other ways to frame it. > I agree with your assessment. > > A long uptime means that the machine hasn't been rebooted for a long > time. If that time's longer than the time to the last patch that > required a kernel recompilation and a reboot, it means the server is not > patched. > Where's the point in advertising an unpatched machine? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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