Re: *nix vs MS
- From: Mark Bole <makbo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sol beach <sol.beach@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:11:03 -0700
sol beach wrote:
tdb2:bash$ uptime
5:55pm up 1114 day(s), 19:54, 3 users, load average: 0.36, 0.27, 0.26
Running V8.1.7 & has NOT been touched in YEARS!
That's impressive. Just to clarify, related to pluses for Unix, I was
referring to the built-in system-level integrity check, rather than the
length of uptime. The Engineers knew to include this by default.
Since "blasphemy" has been popular on this list lately, I'll state here
that I believe all servers, especially production, should be
administratively re-booted on a monthly or quarterly basis. If the
server in the example above does re-boot someday (as it inevitably
will), and it fails to come back up normally, how will you figure out
which change(s) in the last three-plus years caused the problem?
Then again, they claim there is a light bulb in Livermore, California,
that has been lit continuously (maybe not, they seem to be back-peddling
on the "continuous" part now) for the last one hundred years, so who
knows? Will some homely Linux PC out there be the next 100-year light
bulb in the year 2100?
http://www.centennialbulb.org
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