netcraft uptimes

[Kevin Brown]

I wish my DEC Alpha had been on a UPS.  A few weeks ago during a storm it lost
power.  For some reason it wouldn't reboot, complained that the partitions were
corrupt.  Two weeks ago I resigned myself to putting RH6.2 on to it only to find
that the box would boot again.  It went down with just over 400 days up (load
avg of .15).  It has been up for 13 days, 5 hours and some minutes (load avg
.18)

> > Additionally, NT4 uptimes cycle back to zero after 49.7 days, and give
> > timestamps exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at this precise
> > point, while HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD also cycle
> > back to zero after 497 days. NT4 SP5 sometimes gives unreliable data,
> > appearing as a "swarm of bees" effect on a graph
> * On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:37:02AM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> > The fundamental reason all are running *nix seems to be that no other OS
> > reports uptime . . . even many *nixs with reputations for reliability
> > evidently don't report uptime.  (However note that NT5 *does* report uptime.
> 
> I *TOLD* you guys that my FreeBSD box had 498 days of uptime,
> but no one would believe me!
> 
> Can you EVEN IMAGINE telling someone accustomed to an M$ environment,
> "We consistently run into a little snag EVERY SINGLE TIME the bloody
> system has been up for more than 497 days.  It's such a pain."
> 
> D
> 
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