If you have two FreeBSD boxes, sitting in the closet since 1995, they have significant uptime even averaged between themselves. If you have 5,002 Linux boxes, two sitting in the closet since 1995 and 5,000 rebooted on odd chance, you have a heavily skewed bias.
Without basis on why the machines are up/down and factoring that into the averages, it's merely pretty pictures.
I have Linux boxes filtered and firewalled that have been up for years. Due to denial of service attacks to the vulnerable kernels they are running, I can't and won't post them. I will however say that two of these boxes were listed as #1 and #3 on the previous uptime site a couple of years ago. #1 had an excess of 500 days when the site disappeared.
Depending my boxes' job, it may be rebooted several times a day or it may be up for months at a time. I do a lot of code development and testing in/out of the kernel so I have a lot of boxes that get rebooted. I also have a lot of boxes that gather dusty electrons month by month. A few of the boxes I build kernels for crash. Dev kernels do that once in a while. By far however, the systems are completely stable.
All of my machines that lost large uptimes lost it 100% due to power loss.
Let's try and view these figures with an understanding that the Linux boxes outnumber all the others combined by a large number. I'm willing to bet that most of these Linux boxes are personal machines rather than black box setups.
i recommend having a friendly chat with them and explaining a few points:
a) it's an email list b) SMART_HOST iirc, is defined in sendmail source and has been so long before IDG started using it. c) is it really trademark infringement? Red Robin is a restaraunt chain. is slashdot now infringing on their trademark?
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shrug, works for my v3. -d(blu3)
If you have two FreeBSD boxes, sitting in the closet since 1995, they have significant uptime even averaged between themselves. If you have 5,002 Linux boxes, two sitting in the closet since 1995 and 5,000 rebooted on odd chance, you have a heavily skewed bias.
Without basis on why the machines are up/down and factoring that into the averages, it's merely pretty pictures.
I have Linux boxes filtered and firewalled that have been up for years. Due to denial of service attacks to the vulnerable kernels they are running, I can't and won't post them. I will however say that two of these boxes were listed as #1 and #3 on the previous uptime site a couple of years ago. #1 had an excess of 500 days when the site disappeared.
Depending my boxes' job, it may be rebooted several times a day or it may be up for months at a time. I do a lot of code development and testing in/out of the kernel so I have a lot of boxes that get rebooted. I also have a lot of boxes that gather dusty electrons month by month. A few of the boxes I build kernels for crash. Dev kernels do that once in a while. By far however, the systems are completely stable.
All of my machines that lost large uptimes lost it 100% due to power loss.
Let's try and view these figures with an understanding that the Linux boxes outnumber all the others combined by a large number. I'm willing to bet that most of these Linux boxes are personal machines rather than black box setups.
-d
i recommend having a friendly chat with them and explaining a few points:
a) it's an email list
b) SMART_HOST iirc, is defined in sendmail source and has been so long before IDG started using it.
c) is it really trademark infringement? Red Robin is a restaraunt chain. is slashdot now infringing on their trademark?
just a few words for thought.
-d