---------------------------------------------------------------- BEFORE YOU POST, search the faq at <http://java.apache.org/faq/> WHEN YOU POST, include all relevant version numbers, log files, and configuration files. Don't make us guess your problem!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------- About stability of different OS for production use. This is clipped from IEEE Computer Magazine, who cite the Gartner Group. If your sysadmins want NT, probably better run NT, but here's something you can wave in their faces at some convenient time. By the way, our experience has been that we need to reboot Linux after perhaps 5 months. Maybe it is poor practice to let it run so long, I don't know. We've only had one period where there wasn't some external reason to reboot, such as a bit power failure or moving the server. I don't know how Gartner came up with these numbers, but certainly rebooting is much less on Unix, and I have personally never met anyone who found NT stability to be better than Unix after using both. Table 1. Reliability of mainframes, minis, and PCs. Availability based on 24 hours, Type Platform Outages per server per year 365 days per year (percentage) Mainframe IBM S/390 (sysplexed, a cross-bar interconnection 10 minutes 99.998 technology that makes possible a cluster of processors that behave like a multiprocessor system) Compaq Tandem Nonstop 1.7 hours 99.98 IBM AS/400 5.2 hours 99.94 IBM S/390 (nonsysplexed) 8.9 hours 99.90 Mini Digital VAX 18.9 hours 99.78 Unix-based (all types of Unix) 23.6 hours 99.73 PCs Windows-NT-based 224.5 hours 97.44 Source: K. Fitzpatrick, “Platform Availability Data: Can You Spare a Minute?” GartnerAdvisory: Research and Advisory Services, Research Note, Decision Framework, 29 Oct. 1998. -- Cris Perdue Impact Online, Inc. http://www.volunteermatch.org -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the FAQ! <http://java.apache.org/faq/> To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives and Other: <http://java.apache.org/main/mail.html> Problems?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
