[plug] "the debate"

[Roger Yerramsetti]

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Bill G. Gruff wrote:

| > >That's nothing. I've had an NT box that ran 12 hours a day for 3 months
| > >without crashing.
| > Probably wouldn't either -- spends the other 12 hours turned off  :-)

| Even if you want to call it one and a half months, it's still longer than
| any Linux machine could stay up.

At the risk of starting a d.s war ;) A mere sample of our production
servers, operating 24h x 7d. 


games and irc servers:
  5:22pm  up 197 days,  1:45,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.13
  5:11pm  up 137 days, 23:36,  1 user,  load average: 0.77, 0.66, 0.51

webserver:
  4:50pm  up 38 days,  6:49,  2 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00

newsserver:
  4:53pm  up 38 days,  6:28,  1 user,  load average: 1.58, 1.07, 0.86

mailserver:
  4:52pm  up 52 days, 14:12,  1 user,  load average: 5.54, 6.08, 5.61

proxyserver:
  5:00pm  up 111 days, 52 min,  1 user,  load average: 2.31, 4.11, 5.17

firewallserver:
  5:35pm  up 111 days,  4:00,  2 users,  load average: 0.39, 0.29, 0.21


ok... i took the bait. so sue me ;-)


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