[Sheflug] Re: Uptimes + general linux rant

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Chris J/#6 wrote:
> 
> > Without going into too much detail, this box is a primary mail hub and
> > primary DNS server for the university.  So it needs to be relatively stable.
> > Not something we can just take down at a moments notice.
> >
> > I would like to see an NT box do this sort of uptime.  WITHOUT blue
> > screening *snicker*
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> 
> Agreed - I wasn't actually including the vuw machine - even though that's
> what it may have looked like :) It's home machines with large uptimes are the
> ones which are probably more pointless unless they're doing a lot of
> different stuff :) The machine at work is our central file server and it
> tends to run a lot of samba processes concurrently ( = ~200 ... though that
> may be small compared to some places - it's a lot for one of our machines :)
> ) so there's a lot of disk activity. Dunno if an NT box would be as reliable
> .. it'd certainly be more expensive :)

 Mmm.

 I'm now only a week or so away from getting the test machine setup at
work for the Squid webcache. That'll then be replicated to a server when
it gets replaced in a month or three...it'll be interesting to see how
that goes.

 Yup, my home machines generally don't go much over load 1.50, but are
kept at 1.00 with things like distributed.net. Nothing like doing 300
webpage serves a second, but heh.
 The only machine that gets any sort of thrashing is my workstation,
which runs Oracle, AOLserver and some other stuff. That is also the box
I mess around with, so current uptime is usually max of 14 days, because
that's the longest I can hold off without messing with cards and
harddrives or rebuilding the kernel :-)

 I love Linux. 
 I'd hate to think how much it would cost to get all the systems I've
going doing the same under
that-certain-well-know-closed-source-company...
 I'd hate to think how often we'd all have to reboot.
 I'd hate to think that someone wasn't improving such-and-such because
it was fun/something interesting/a challenge and not the next day to
work through at Redmond.
 I'd also hate to figure it all out without ShefLUG - having to phone
tech support lines run by people who have no idea what ISDN or ADSL was
and can't be bothered...
 Oh, and I'd hate to think there are hardwired back doors (aka
Interbase)

 Doh!

 Baz.
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