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From: tim@introl.com (Tim Chase)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.8 Stability Report
Date: 1 May 1994 22:45:36 -0500
Organization: Introl Corp.
Lines: 31
Message-ID: <2q1t10$ltd@introl.introl.com>
References: <2pkpcj$qcg@zone4.ocunix.on.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: introl.introl.com
Keywords: stability, uptime

In article <2pkpcj$qcg@zone4.ocunix.on.ca> roo@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Andrew Low) writes:
>
>$ (hostname;date;uptime) 
>zone4.ocunix.on.ca
>Wed Apr 27 00:13:45 EDT 1994
>12:13am  up 201 days, 13:59,  3 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.40, 0.47

I've been waiting for a time to brag about the uptime of our news server.
It seems that Ultrix 4.2 can also be very stable:

% (hostname;date;uptime)
news.introl.com
Sun May  1 22:41:38 CDT 1994
 10:41pm  up 328 days, 7 mins,  0 users,  load average: 2.94, 1.75, 1.01

>Apps: elm, inn, trn, microemacs, and various BSDish utilities.

Inn & friends, on our system.

I've certainly never heard of longer uptime.  The 201 days for NetBSD 0.8
is pretty impressive, however.  Hopefully the next release past 0.9
(whatever it's going to be called) will be as solid.

There is something to be said for running a fixed set of programs on a
system since you're not likely to stress new areas of the systems and
cause a crash.


-- 
Tim Chase		           Introl Corp. Milwaukee, WI USA
Email: tim@introl.com		   Phone: +1 (414) 327-7171