By not updating. That is how they do it. No those boxes haven't been rebooted. Free BSD has something to minimize reboots but it's no better than anything Linux has. Have you ever used Free BSD? It's OK but the first week you're going to want to punch the core developers. I just got tired of updating a fresh install of Free BSD a minute ago, and got pissed, and did : bsd# rm -rf / I feel better now. On Sunday 05 September 2004 23:12, Marcos Lazarini wrote:
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