netcraft uptimes

[kallen3@icircus.net]

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> > 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.
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> I *TOLD* you guys that my FreeBSD box had 498 days of uptime,
> but no one would believe me!
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> 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."
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Where I work at they need to reboot the NT Server once a week which means
everything goes down for at least 1 hour. So whenever I'm ask how often I
have to reboot my web/database/mail/ftp/news server I get very
disbelieveing looks when I tell them "I don't know, had to be at least
several months ago". I'm then told that I most likely don't have the same
amount of traffic which I countered by pointing out how many of the
employees there use one of my server in one form or another.