Re: [vox] Uptime :) <smirk>

[Don Werve <donw@exMAPSamen.com>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:01:02AM -0800, speck@blkmtn.org wrote:
>
> \\sac-xxxx-file01 has been up for 74 days, 2 hours, 4 minutes, 25 seconds.
> 
> It was put into production 74 days ago.
> The user load is file server for approx 100 people/both personal 
> directories and group directories.  The xxxx was changed to protect 
> company xxxx, which I support.
> 
> Now the real story is, my file server is running on  very new Compaq 
> hardware.  All the stuff is in the MS Hardware Compatibility List(HCL).  
> The system is protected by a UPS.  And I don't muck with it by putting 
> Beta/new released SW on it.
> 
> So, there is a cost differential at work.
>

Exactly; apples and oranges.  A proper comparison would be between your 
NT machine (which sounds, from the way you wrote, like a bit of an 
anomaly) to a Sun box that we had at my work -- it ran fine for about 
two *years* before being rebooted; and at that, was only rebooted 
because the UPS battery failed during a power outage this past summer.

Many Linux/Unix-ers, as you well know, run beta software on the same
machines that display these impressive uptimes; hell, my *workstation*
usually gets into the fifty-day uptime range, and the only reason it
gets rebooted is that I'm a geek and like building new kernels.  That's
a system that I develop, listen to music, read email, write papers, 
and surf the web on; plus it's also the print server and an app server
for my house (me, two parents, and a few friends who SSH in to my 
webserver machine).  All on commodity hardware.

As per the user load, we have an eleven-year-old Sun machine (a Sun 
SPARCserver 1000E) that's handling file serving for about two hundred
users, plus LDAP directory services, plus calendaring (using Netscape
calendar, a remarkably crappy product), internal mail, internal DNS, 
and authentication (NIS+, Samba PDC).  It runs just fine.

Not trying to belittle your acheivement; a seventy-four day uptime on
an NT server under light load is pretty impressive.  But MS still 
has a bit of a ways to go before they can touch Unix-like stability 
numbers.

-- 
Don Werve <donw@examen.com>
Unix System Administrator

Plus je vois les hommes, plus j'admire les chiens.
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