[ale] uptime?

[Luis Luna]

	I believe that, uptime is great when you have a good streak going. But I
had two nt 4.0 server stay up for 1 year 4 months without rebooting or
hiccuping. I finally shut them down, pulled out the hard drives / cards /
etc. and slapped them on a new mobo, PIII chip, RAM, and case. Re-applied
the service pack, rebooted, and they have been running since 12/15/2000 like
champs. So what. I built a RH 6.2 server at the same time, loaded samba and
had it share files out along with the 2 NT boxes, I haven't needed to shut
it down for the same time as the NT boxes.
	I have an NT box acting as our proxy server and other internet jobs, P200
with 96 megs of RAM, it has been up for 7 months. I only had to reboot
because of some software I loaded requested a reboot, so before that it had
been running for the previous 8 months since I built it.

luis

-----Original Message-----
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> The point is, extended uptimes speaks of stability and robust kernel and
> application code.  One of the problems I believe NT has is memory
> leaks.  I used to have to run NT on my laptop, and it would just plain
> go brain dead after a while.

In the interest of getting a good flamewar started...

I actually have 2 NT4 SP4 boxen running WINS/DNS (internal only) that
have somehow managed to stay up since 04/21/2000. In contrast, a Samba
server running on identical hardware only lasted 4 months. After some
analysis on the box in question, I believe I've found a faulty power
supply feeding "dirty juice" to the Linux box. To make a long story
short...

Uptimes don't mean sh*t!!!

I've seen HP-UX machines run for a year at a time, only to crash HARD 2
mos after the next reboot. I have friends in the military who run
NT4/Exchange 5.5 boxes that run for 6-8 months at a time without so much
as a hiccup. I've also seen Linux machines run for over a year. But I've
also seen Linux machines crash and burn. There are so many factors
involved in maintaining uptime that it's not worth attempting to compare
OS statistics.

I'll have to say that it's been my experience that Linux/BSD systems do
seem to run longer. I've never personally seen a BSD box crash. However, I
think the hardware, system load, and configuration have much more to do
with it than the OS. There are plenty of things for us (Linux enthusiasts)
to brag about without resorting to using uptime statistics.

--
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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