[ciapug] Hmmm...

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Hmmm... Does that FreeBSD box live in an all Microsoft envirnoment? I
remember rebooting NT boxes once a week, but never once a *day*...



On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 12:05, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> A client I work with reboots their FreeBSD server daily.  They say it's 
> so they can make sure their init scripts continue to work, but it seems 
> a little excessive to me (especially since I do most of the sysadmin on 
> the box)
> 
> 12:01PM  up  6:30, 1 user, load averages: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
> 
> from that one (623258 hits last month)
> 
> -barry
> 
> 
> Jerry Weida wrote:
> > You know... it used to be that if you had an uptime of more than 30 days it 
> > was considered poor administration because kernel patches would come out at 
> > least that often.
> > 
> > That said, I've seen some posts in newsgroups about servers being up 3 years 
> > before being rebooted or just crashing. I've only seen about 6 months before 
> > I rebooted (usually for a kenerl update)
> > 
> > On 6/23/05, Chris Hettinger <cjh at raccoon.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>I win. :)
> >>
> >>(development server)
> >>[chris at xxx]$ uptime
> >>10:01:32 up 369 days, 10:09, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.00
> >>
> >>(production server)
> >>[chris at xxx]$ uptime
> >>10:01:34 up 369 days, 10:27, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.00
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> >>
> >>>Time for some fun...
> >>>
> >>>Here's one of my Linux database servers. Looks like things have been
> >>>kinda slow lately. Uptime was double that before I had to replace a dvd
> >>>rw that died from sucking up a bunch of dust...
> >>>
> >>>[root at xxx]# uptime
> >>>08:25:25 up 256 days, 23:06, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.20, 0.09
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>:) Dave
> >>
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