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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!newsfeed.nacamar.de!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!chacal.noc.demon.net!not-for-mail From: jrg@demon.net (James R Grinter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community" Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi.misc Date: 27 Mar 1997 16:29:21 +0000 Organization: Demon Internet, Network Operations Centre, London UK Sender: jrg@chacal.noc.demon.net Message-ID: <qzsp1huwm6.fsf@chacal.noc.demon.net> References: <331BB7DD.28EC@net5.net> <332F69B8.1CFBAE39@freebsd.org> <5h5jgr$et4$1@news.clinet.fi> <5h91l2$gua@innocence.interface-business.de> <5h9rr0$2sj@flea.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chacal.noc.demon.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: chacal.noc.demon.net X-Subliminal: H is for Hypertext X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37925 comp.sys.sgi.misc:29474 dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon) writes: > At the moment, we are getting an average of 20 to 30 days uptime on > our L's, running 64 bit 6.2 with a generally heavy multi-user load, > and 60 to 100 days or so of uptime on the Indy's and S's which > are dedicated to particular functions (such as DNS, irc, and sendmail). > The challenge S's with medium to heavy multi-user loads tend to stay up > around 40 days. Sometimes the kernels get confused and have to these things always vary. I've got a Challenge S here that's been up 176 days (web server for around 20,000 customers). OTOH, I do have another that's doing a mysterious 'total-freeze' thing; the last time it happened (same chassis, too) it ended up being an MMU failure on the motherboard and it needed a board swap. We've also had our fair share of network lockups due to using up all mbufs, and some crashes when I've done things to the routing table/interface aliases. The former I "understand", though I'd prefer if it didn't just freeze up such that it needed a manual reboot; the latter were bugs that were documented and fixed in patches. [followups to comp.sys.sgi.misc] -- jrg.