[ILUG] Uptime and Solaris

[Niall O Broin]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 05:22:29PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:

>  Very likely, yes and yes :) And btw, I've had Solaris up to 90+ without
>  crashing, too, but SPARC hardware is in a different league :)

I've been working with Sun hardware on and off for 13 years, the last 5
fulltime, and I've never had a SunOS or Solaris box up for longer than six
months. The longest uptimes have been ended not by crashes but by the box
becoming flaky - just not doing things right, and stopping and restarting
bits until I was blue in the face didn't help.

By contrast, I've a Linux box which is in service since about last May. It
crashed once (it's in a colo, and it stopped responding, so I'd no option
but to get the colo operators to push the red button - that still bugs me !)
and was taken down for maintenance (more disk space) 229 days ago. This is
on an Asus m'board with an AMD processor - definitely a different league
from Sun hardware :-) What's killing me is that it has ~4G of disk space
left and consumption is at about 800M - 1G per month. I don't know if I can
manage to put off the installation of the additional disk for another 137
days :-) I can see myself counting the days and doing rpm -e on more and
more packages - hmm - 15M in this glibc thing - that can go :-)



Regards,


Niall