RE: subject: iSeries Legends

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Scott Klement
>
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> My FreeBSD servers all run without any downtime at all.  My web server
> http://www.scottklement.com went about 900 days without a single second
> of downtime before a recent power failure.   When the power was restored,
> it went right back to serving requests.  And, that machine is not just my
> web server, it also does various things with e-mail, some application
> programs, and services for other domains.

Scott, to be fair, a web/mail server is not exactly a tough job.

"Some application programs" ain't half the workload a typical OS/400 box
does every day of its working life.  And this is not a "Unix is bad" tirade.
My Linux machine is actually my most reliable box on a pure numbers basis,
but that's only because the 270 has thrown two disk drives in the past year.
At the same time, I guarantee my 270 gets a much harder workout than my Unix
box.

Oh I take that back.  Until I shut it down the other day, my NT box was the
most reliable.  Zero downtime in three years.  However, it did nothing.  It
was the DNS and network server, but the Linux box took over the former job
and the latter is no longer required.

But I don't ever hear of production Unix or especially NT boxes (ones
running applications like Oracle or SAP) with that sort of uptime.

Unles