Andy Holyer wrote:
The other day I was explaining something to my boss (a suit),
You're a patient one, then ...
and I mentioned that a FreeBSD box would easily run for a year or more. "Oh", he said, "and then you've got to reboot it?". I explained that generally some upgrade comes along that reqwuires a reboot, but I realized that I don't know how long a box would stay up in the maximum. So, come on, this should be fun, what's the biggest uptime you've ever had for a BSD box?
For a publicly accessible host, around 150 days, which is probably too much; generally things start to feel "stale" by then, to me, and security paranoia grows in direct correlation to system uptime (which should reflect more on my perceived knowledge of security and paranoia than on the Project's software....)
In the old days, we used to have boxes with uptimes in the 900 day range. Nowadays that would be insanity. As a security professional, I get irked that some of our boxes only get patched annually (because they only get rebooted annually). It's far too risky a proposition these days.
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