Re: uptime, where art thou ?

[Wouter Klouwen <dublet%dublet.org@localhost>]

Zafer Aydogan(zafer%aydogan.de@localhost) said 2008.04.22 10:54:05 +0000:
> I've seen this on Linux.
> 
> Quote from the man page:
> "  The pseudo user reboot logs in each time the  system  is  rebooted.   Thus
>        last reboot will show a log of all reboots since the log file
> was created."
> 
> it looks like this:
> 
> reboot   system boot  2.6.11.4-20a-smp Fri Dec 22 16:44         (158+00:14)
> 
> Here you see the uptime was 158 days +
> 
> What do you think about it ?
 
Why be so obsessed by uptime? It's a concept which does not matter at all,
and a useless metric for comparing OSes. 
It's the amount of down time/availability that you should be worried about.

> Zafer.

        --Wouter