[root@fantasy /root]# uptime
3:54pm up 261 days, 4:51, 14 users, load average: 1.08, 1.08, 1.15
[root@fantasy /root]#
Does that help?
This is a RedHat 5.2 box (2.2.14, Pentium) that hosts shells. Lots of
eggdrops, bouncers, etc. Average of about 100 processes at any given time.
261 days ago our ISP moved offices so we physically had to move the box.
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Warren Melnick
Director of Research and Development
Astata Corporation
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael R. Jinks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 3:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: unix sys
Mahalakshmi wrote:
> > Is there any limitation for UNIX machines that they should be restarted
> > after n days.
Nope.
> > Windows crashes automatically
I love that expression!
> > if the m/c is not switched off
> > for 49.7 days and this is accepted by Microsoft.
(This may be inaccurate for recent releases of Windows, BTW, though I
haven't looked it up in a long time.)
Lots of unforgivable things are accepted by Microsoft. There is no
excuse for any modern, production-ready OS to require periodic reboots
except in cases of OS upgrades or hardware-level adjustments. If Linux
needs to reboot after N hours of uptime, there's probably a memory leak
somewhere and Linus Needs To Know.
> > I heard that the unix system cud probably be rebooted after n days in
order
> > to flush some memory space,inode entries etc..
>From whom? Ed Muth and Jim Allchin?
A quick look around home and office shows at least three machines (one
Linux and two OpenBSD) with uptimes above 50 days. Sort of disappointed
that I couldn't find anything longer but I tinker a lot.
--
Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation
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