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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.abo.fi!not-for-mail From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: 17 Apr 1996 13:04:26 GMT Organization: Unorganized Usenet Postings UnInc. Lines: 48 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <4l2q8q$ona@josie.abo.fi> References: <4issad$h1o@nadine.teleport.com> <Pine.PMDF.3.91.960324150948.9390A-100000@plains.uwyo.edu> <4jejjt$cdb@park.uvsc.edu> <315E0F1A.4E3FB53D@lucon.org> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960401105810.31921A-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> <4jqpn8$euv@agate.berkeley.edu> <4jsq5i$5ko@main.gbdata.com> <4jvm5n$2v8@agate.berkeley.edu> <4k39as$5n4@dyson.iquest.net> <4kcafk$knt@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <4kmoli$f8c@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4ksfst$459@raffles.technet.sg> Reply-To: mandtbac@abo.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: zorn.abo.fi X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950520BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17706 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46328 The Tooth Is Out There, in <4ksfst$459@raffles.technet.sg>: >Is there any recent comparisons on which one is better suited to be a server >configuration? even that comparison sounds near-impossible. what other machines are there on that net, what will it be serving to what OS'es, what other servers are there and what are they running? what are the admins more experienced with, and/or what do they happen to like better? > Can anyone post any information on server uptimes and >downtimes. for both Linux and FreeBSD, hardware concerns are probably what determines reliability more than kernel code quality. they're both good enough that if they go down, odds are it's something else that's gone haywire. i know of Linux boxen that have stayed up more than a year non-stop. i'd be surprised if the FreeBSD record was significantly lower, or higher; if higher, i wouldn't off-hand credit it to the OS alone, since you need an almost unusually stable environment to keep _anything_ up much longer than that anyway. > Which server can stay online longest without rebooting? on an Intel-architecture box, due to a jiffy counter overflowing, it's probably a good idea to reboot Linux once a year. ;-) if that's too often for you, use a DEC Alpha box, it's got an unsigned 64-bit jiffy counter, which gets incremented every millisecond - work it out yourself. ;-) ;-) seriously, the answer to this depends far more on what you do with the box and how you do it, than anything much else. with decent hardware, neither OS ought to give you headaches. > How are they compared to SUN OS or HP-UX interms of uptimes? i have trouble imagining either of those getting very much longer uptimes than years. longer, possibly, because they're both significant enough investments that you'd be interested in keeping them happily running along, but running them for very many years nonstop would land you with outdated hardware and system software sort of needlessly. (oh, and your .sig is oversize. i know, in advocacy groups maybe that's the least sin you can commit, but it's really *badly* oversize.) -- "look on the bright side, is suicide" -- Nirvana