Michael A. Stone wrote:
> crashes, glitches, and system hangs. the stats i've seen (and have
> heard verified by the people who use NT in production) show that under
> load, NT systems run about 3-5% USD. that's roughly an hour down,
per
> machine, per day. worst of all, from my point of view, there's not
much
> correlation between uptime and crashing. you can't drop the crash
rate
> by shutting the machines down and rebooting periodically (converting
> unscheduled downtime to scheduled downtime). reboot an NT server,
put
> it back into production, and five minutes later you can see the blue
> screen of "why didn't i go with another OS?". unix systems can grow
> unstable over time, but they tend to be more deterministic about it.
> if you reboot once a week, you start over fresh, and it's perfectly
> feasible to run a unix network with zero (or at least vanishingly
small)
> USD.
Gawds.. who runs these servers??? Blue Screen of Death?? I've only
gotten
this on one server where the techie didn't calibrate the motherboard for
the
new CPU. If you are getting those, it's almost always a hardware
problem. I
run a whole slew of NT servers and don't experience this kind of
downtime...
as a matter of fact, I've had servers run for months and months without
ever
shutting down.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... if your servers are going
down
you've either got buggy software, buggy hardware or your sysadmins need
to
read the manual.
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