[rescue] Mainframe on eBay

Kevin Loch kloch at gurunet.net
Sat Sep 17 12:53:27 CDT 2005


Peter wrote:
> I have x86 boxes I consider unreliable and have thrown away, yet
> they're not that bad. Heck, some of the Linux boxes (yes, x86 - mainly
> P3 and P4) under my wing had uptimes of over a year before we decided
> to have an orderly reboot to clear out any memory leaks and fsck the
> disks.

I had an HP Lpr (pentium II) server running FreeBSD 4.3 up for
just over 1000 days until the building power AND generator failed
AND the ups's ran out of juice after two hours.

- Kevin



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