Well sometimes you don't need to upgrade and you aren't connected to the
internet directly. elephant: {25} uptime 5:54PM up 1756 days, 7:07, 2 users, load averages: 1.04, 1.01, 1.00 elephant 4.9-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 This machine is semi-retired now but for its first three years it was the database server (ads, reg, hit logging etc.) for a large website (> 300,000 pages/day). It also handled the queries for a monthly reports server that created detailed reports for about 5000 companies that had content on the site. I didn't keep track of the connections then but its replacement is doing 28,527 conn/hr. This was on an internal network that was firewalled from everything but port 3306 on the webserver IP, and a couple admin IPs. It was a big exercise to replace it as the databases were quite large (48G) and it took a good fraction of an hour to make the occasional snapshot for starting a new replicator when needed. FreeBSD really is one of the most stable OSs even under a pretty good load. Cheers, Charlie "One OS to rule them all" :-) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"