On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:14:46 -0800, Spike Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul & David, > > Good points that I agree with but at least at three managers I've had want > to the uptime get bigger & bigger. Something about the 99.95% uptime > "industry standard." :-((( Ridiculous.
They are wrong. Tell them gently that they should not confuse uptime with availability. A planned reboot at 03:00 that has no effect on the availability of the server is much better than an unexpected outage at 14:25 because a leaking database backend ate all your shared memory segments. That does wonders for availability. If you can't trust your machines to reboot themselves unattended and bring themselves back up to operational status then you have shall have to bring a pair of pyjamas into work and set up a cot in the machine room. 99.95% is about 4 and half hours per year. Ask your managers to cover you for the allowance of having a server being offline one whole afternoon per year. Ask for it in writing. David -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
