Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-05 Thread Murray Taylor
698 days - Cyrus IMAP server. Had to shut it down to move the server farm to another building... On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 06:41, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:45 AM +0100 9/3/04, Andy Holyer wrote: > >I explained that generally some upgrade comes along that requires > >a reboot, but I realized th

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Robert Huff
Hugo Silva writes: > I try never to reboot my servers, only when critical security > updates are issued. The reason for this is I work with shell > providers mostly, and the uptime is a big factor for the clients. Surely these folks can afford a spare machine on which to do systems de

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Bill Moran
"Hugo Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a 4.8 server with 280 days uptime, then the motherboard burned :/ > > I try never to reboot my servers, only when critical security updates are > issued. The reason for this is I work with shell providers mostly, and the > uptime is a big factor

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:45 AM +0100 9/3/04, Andy Holyer wrote: I explained that generally some upgrade comes along that requires a reboot, but I realized that I don't know how long a box would stay up in the maximum. So, come on, this should be fun, what's the biggest uptime you've ever had for a BSD box? I don't thi

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Hugo Silva
I've had a 4.8 server with 280 days uptime, then the motherboard burned :/ I try never to reboot my servers, only when critical security updates are issued. The reason for this is I work with shell providers mostly, and the uptime is a big factor for the clients. But of course, if choosing to reb

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, September 03, 2004 10:55:09 AM -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Most of the servers I manage (which are all intended for 24/7 access) see about 3 months between reboots. That's an average. Some servers are more aggresively updated than others, and are rebooted more often.

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, September 03, 2004 09:15:00 AM -0500 "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andy Holyer wrote: The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit), You're a patient one, then ... and I mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. "Oh

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Robert Huff wrote: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: IIRC, Netcraft now claims that most new FreeBSD builds "reset" to zero after 400-something days, so some of their statistics may be no longer as valid... From the NetCraft FAQ: Why do some Operating Systems never show uptimes abov

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. writes: > I've heard accounts of boxen acting as, say, LAN routers or LAN file > servers with uptimes of years. Within the last year or two, I had a conversation with someone who claimed to have a machine runn9ing 2.2.x (or maybe it was 2.1.x) continuously

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Bill Moran
Andy Holyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit), and I > mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. "Oh", > he said, "and then you've got to reboot it?". I explained that > generally some upgrade comes along that reqwu

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Andy Holyer wrote: The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit), You're a patient one, then ... and I mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. "Oh", he said, "and then you've got to reboot it?". I explained that generally some upgrade comes along that req

Re: Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread David Syphers
On Friday 03 September 2004 01:45 am, Andy Holyer wrote: > The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit), and I > mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. "Oh", > he said, "and then you've got to reboot it?". I explained that > generally some upgrade comes al

Way OT: How long does your box run for?

2004-09-03 Thread Andy Holyer
The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit), and I mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. "Oh", he said, "and then you've got to reboot it?". I explained that generally some upgrade comes along that reqwuires a reboot, but I realized that I don't know