Re: [tlug] longest uptime boxes

[Tim Hurman <kano-tlug@example.com>]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Jim O'Connell wrote:

> Uptime is a dangerous addiction that is best avoided.
> If you feel you are getting hooked on looking at your uptime stats, reboot *now* - the top sites are never going down - you'll never be #1 at netcraft, so just put it out of your mind.
>
> You'll sleep better - trust me.
> Cheers,
> Jim (who just rebooted his linux box after 423 days of flawless uptime to add some hard drives.  )
> ;-)
>
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=mmdc.dyndns.org&submit=Examine
>

Going to boast a bit here:
www1.kw.bbc.co.uk-root-1: uptime
  3:15pm  up 1338 day(s), 20:29,  1 user,  load average: 0.32, 0.30, 0.33

</grin> (it's not an idle machine either)

>
> Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung@example.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > what do you think about is survey?
> >
> > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
> >

Looks bogus, see above. Netcraft cant actually tell the uptime of
machines, it uses some little hacks to guesstimate.

> > All of them are *bsd*. I dont know much about BSD but this survey showed
> > that *bsd* is more stable than linux. I have a linux server but when
> > upgrading kernel, a reboot is MUST ;)
> >
> > Vu Hung
>

Tim.

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