On Friday 11 December 2009 20:54:46 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Now do you understand why my refusal to reboot my machines willy-nilly is > > entirely rational? It's because they are not my laptop. > > That is certainly one good example. My little ol desktop is not > rebooted to much. I once went 242 days without a reboot. I only > rebooted then because hurricane Katrina knocked out my lights for about > 26 hours. My little generator also bit the dust. It had a nice hole in > the side of the motor and a really nasty smell. > > There are a lot of computers that can't be rebooted easily. Some are > run remotely too. Some like yours just have to run 24/7 which is one > thing *nix is good at.
Some numbers :-) I have three auth name servers. I have customers who get mighty upset when they blip. Hence, I need to provide guarantees like this: These two are in-country in the data centres we control: $ uptime 9:07PM up 65 days $ uptime 9:07PM up 994 days This one is in New York, where I definitely have no control at all: $ uptime 9:07PM up 464 days -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
