Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Adam M.
Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I moved the server because wedohosting.com's bandwidth fees were > getting prohibitive (i'm with iweb.ca now).. otherwise I would have been > happy to have it continue running for another few thousand days. :-) I find that Tera-Byte.com in Edmonton has nice colo rate

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 05:57:22PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > This is the most sensible answer I've heard about this (and I've > bitched about the limitation a lot). Maybe it's time for me to delve into > the kernel source for the first time in 10 years. I gather this was "fixed" in Linux 2.5

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Anthony Towns wrote: > No it wouldn't; it'd just require you to have two extra ints, and something > that > ran every so often (and as part of any syscall that tells userspace the > uptime), > that does: > > static unsigned last_uptime = 0; > static unsigned wraps = 0; > if (u

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:39:48PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Fixing this would require having every increment of the jiffies counter > to check for overflow, and using two counters. This is unnecessary > overhead (a very small overhead, granted, but still), for a very small > benefit. No it w

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I moved the server because wedohosting.com's bandwidth fees were > getting prohibitive (i'm with iweb.ca now).. otherwise I would have been > happy to have it continue running for another few thousand days. :-) > I don't suppose you could have moved it while still r

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was finally retired today, after 875 days of uptime, not because there > > was a problem with it, just because there was a price problem with the > > hosting provider it's colocated at. For an "unstable" distribution, it gave > > me the most st

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:29:21AM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > It was finally retired today, after 875 days of uptime, not because there > was a problem with it, just because there was a price problem with the > hosting provider it's colocated at. For an "unstable" distribution, it gave > me th

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That production server has been running debian/unstable since it's inception > > in january of 2004, with dselect updates happening every couple of days. It > > was running apache, postfix, mysql, mydns. Despite being "unstable", there > > was never a prob

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tyler MacDonald wrote: > http://www.crackerjack.net/adserton3.png > > That production server has been running debian/unstable since it's inception > in january of 2004, with dselect updates happening every couple of days. It > was running apache, post

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Roland Mas
Sebastian Harl, 2006-06-08 21:10:11 +0200 : >> http://www.crackerjack.net/adserton3.png > > On that picture it says the box is up for 378 days. How does that go > with 875 days idle time? Old Linux kernels have their uptime roll over at about 497 days (which is like 2^32 ticks of a hundredth of

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Miguel Gea Milvaques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Harl wrote: >> http://www.crackerjack.net/adserton3.png > > On that picture it says the box is up for 378 days. How does that go with 875 > days idle time? zoom in - -- e-mail: Miguel Gea Milvaques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Blog: http://www.

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread The Fungi
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:20:03PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Due to a bug with "w", or the kernel, or whatever, which nobody seems to > want to fix, the system uptime wraps around to 0 days after 400-and-someodd > days. That's why I circled the login/idle time on the screenshot. :-) The jiff

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2006-06-08 kello 12:20 -0700, Tyler MacDonald kirjoitti: > Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.crackerjack.net/adserton3.png > > > > On that picture it says the box is up for 378 days. How does that go with > > 875 days idle time? > > > > Due to a bug with "w", or the

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Sebastian Harl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.crackerjack.net/adserton3.png > > On that picture it says the box is up for 378 days. How does that go with > 875 days idle time? > Due to a bug with "w", or the kernel, or whatever, which nobody seems to want to fix, the system uptime wra

Re: unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Sebastian Harl
> http://www.crackerjack.net/adserton3.png On that picture it says the box is up for 378 days. How does that go with 875 days idle time? Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC http://tokkee.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

unstable? nah. :-)

2006-06-08 Thread Tyler MacDonald
http://www.crackerjack.net/adserton3.png That production server has been running debian/unstable since it's inception in january of 2004, with dselect updates happening every couple of days. It was running apache, postfix, mysql, mydns. Despite being "unstable", there was never a problem that resu