On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > PC systems can also (if you pick good hardware, environment and UPS etc) deliver >very good > uptimes: > > 11:41am up 469 days, 12:24, 73 users, load average: 1.35, 1.14, 1.15
Even on my cheap hardware, I can think of only two hardware failures that would have taken one of my PCs down: Failed SIMM - surely would not have happend had it been ECC. Well, probably not. Failed HDD. It was a positively ancient 170 Mbyte drive containing nothing important. It failed, but the system ran for weeks after that till I got round to fixing it. On further reflection, there have been a couple of other drives too, both old. But, had I had new Fujitsu drives.... If I as serious bout uptime, I'd add UPS, and if I was really serious, SCSI and RAID, and seriously serious, one of the HA routes. I'm not sure that an uptime of 469 days is all that good - it means you are not up to date with your maintenance;-). -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
