On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:33 PM, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cyril Plisko writes: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Orvar Korvar > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How long uptime for Solaris and which version, have you heard of? Please > be quite sure when you post, not something like "i heard a tale about a > strangers cat whose neighbour had a solaris box in poland that had 5 years > uptime". > > > > > > > > > > Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 > > XXXXX:/export/home/imp> uptime > > 9:15am up 1011 day(s), 8:26, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > XXXXX:/export/home/imp> date > > Fri Mar 21 09:16:50 PST 2008 > > XXXXX:/export/home/imp> > > > > > > That's the highest I have, personally. > > There are more records here: > > > http://www.brendangregg.com/sunrecords.html#time1 > > But I'm a bit confused by the request. Is long uptime always a good > thing? It also means that you haven't taken the system down for > patching or regular maintenance and upgrade in years. That seems to > me like a dubious accomplishment ... sort of like "longest time > between baths."
Not only that, is uptime really an indicator of operating system reliability, or hardware reliability and system administration policies? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
