1000+ day uptime 5.3-RELEASE box

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Maxim Konovalov wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, 04:08-0600, Kevin Day wrote:
>
>>
>> We installed a 5.3-RELEASE box back in 2004, and it's been running
>> pretty hard ever since with no crashes, reboots or anything. We're
>> about to finally take it down to upgrade the OS soon - are there any
>> stats anyone wants to see before we do? I know in the past there
>> have been some "I wonder if that code path ever happened" musings
>> that maybe I can answer. The system is running lighttpd/php/mysql on
>> a pretty busy website non-stop during that period.
>>
>> Pasted below are some stats that I thought someone might want to
>> see, even if it's just searching the archives later. I have no idea
>> which of these counters have wrapped around. The "netstat -m"
>> counters definitely don't look right. Email me in the next few days
>> if you want to see something I haven't yet pasted:
>>
>>
>> ts1# uptime
>> 9:35AM  up 1076 days, 19 hrs, 1 user, load averages: 0.43, 0.35, 0.31
>
> 4.x is way better :-)
>
> $ uptime
> 6:06PM  up 1725 days, 23:07, 1 user, load averages: 0.31, 0.30, 0.26
> $ uname -r
> 4.4-RC
>
> [ we need to redirect this thread to -chat :-) ]

or advocacy like
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2003-August/000225.html

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
Software is harder than hardware  so better get it right the first time.