> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:33 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Cyril Plisko writes: >> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Orvar Korvar >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > How long uptime for Solaris and which version, have you heard of? >> Please be quite sure when you post, not something like "i heard a >> tale about a strangers cat whose neighbour had a solaris box in >> poland that had 5 years uptime". >> > > >> > > >> > >> > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 >> > XXXXX:/export/home/imp> uptime >> > 9:15am up 1011 day(s), 8:26, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, >> 0.00 >> > XXXXX:/export/home/imp> date >> > Fri Mar 21 09:16:50 PST 2008 >> > XXXXX:/export/home/imp> >> > >> > >> > That's the highest I have, personally. >> >> There are more records here: >> >> >> http://www.brendangregg.com/sunrecords.html#time1 >> >> But I'm a bit confused by the request. Is long uptime always a good >> thing? It also means that you haven't taken the system down for >> patching or regular maintenance and upgrade in years. That seems to >> me like a dubious accomplishment ... sort of like "longest time >> between baths." > > Not only that, is uptime really an indicator of operating system > reliability, or hardware reliability and system administration > policies? >
I think that uptime longer than six months serves little or no purpose. The whole uptime battle is one of "my server has been running longer than yours" and it really belongs in the Windows world. Not here. So you left the power on and your sysadmin walked out on you in 2006 and you don't know the root password? Big deal. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
