Randall R Schulz wrote:
Marcos,
On Sunday 05 September 2004 19:26, Marcos Lazarini wrote:
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Netcraft is a good source of info about internet servers uptime: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html Sorry to mention, but within the top 50 we have only BSD.... # 1 today is: java.versalite.com - uptime: 1772 days - FreeBSD - Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
Four years, 10 months, 1 week. That is, since late November 1999. Color me dubious. Can FreeBSD apply patches to a live kernel without rebooting?
I though it was possible, but my local BSD guru (well, not so guru :-)) told me that BSD kernel compile process works much like linux kernel... If you have to change your kernel, will have to reboot. One topic unclear to us is that *may be* it is possible to recompile just the modules and reload them, without rebooting. I have a 'spare' partition on my home computer, and I plan to install FreeBSD there soon... these huge uptimes drive me nervous sometimes - "how can they do it?" :-) -- Marcos Lazarini