Re: [TCLUG:17126] Uptimes

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>         avoiding reboots is a point of pride. :) truth be told, it's a bit
> silly; one really should reboot *any* machine occasionally, if only to make
> sure that it *will* reboot. also, applying kernel patches is a healthy thing
> to do. 
>         mostly people try to keep record uptimes (whatever the operating
> system) as a bragging right. to "prove" their superiority to other OSes, and
> their superiority to other users of that OS. mostly silly, yes; but no one
> ever accused humans of being entirely rational.

Or, from the sysadmin point of view, a reboot just to get a service
running again is deadly.. availability is a major issue, even when the
server will only be down for 2-3 minutes.

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