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Offline Matthew

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  • Talk about Linux being rock solid --

    My Linux (CentOS 6) web server hasn't been rebooted for 331 days! Can you imagine not rebooting for an entire year?

    I remember some versions of Windows that needed to be rebooted several times a day...

    There's a reason Linux dominates the web server market.


    P.S. It's a shame, but I'm about to break my uptime streak on purpose.  I have to take down the server today (or some Sunday morning, when traffic is low) for A) dusting/cleaning and B) to be relocated to a different shelf.
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    Offline Ascetik

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    Re: Linux rock solid - CI server has gone 331 days without reboot!
    « Reply #1 on: May 30, 2018, 02:17:28 PM »
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  • CentOS is the gold standard for web servers for sure. I also really like Debian.


    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Linux rock solid - CI server has gone 331 days without reboot!
    « Reply #2 on: May 30, 2018, 02:49:27 PM »
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  • I had some early RedHat boxes (before they started charging for it) that I let go for years without rebooting.

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    Re: Linux rock solid - CI server has gone 331 days without reboot!
    « Reply #3 on: May 30, 2018, 06:30:03 PM »
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    Re: Linux rock solid - CI server has gone 331 days without reboot!
    « Reply #4 on: May 30, 2018, 09:05:11 PM »
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  • Apparently there's a way to do even do Linux kernel upgrades without rebooting.
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    Re: Linux rock solid - CI server has gone 331 days without reboot!
    « Reply #5 on: June 14, 2018, 06:59:49 PM »
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  • Talk about Linux being rock solid -- My Linux (CentOS 6) web server hasn't been rebooted for 331 days!  Can you imagine not rebooting for an entire year?  There's a reason Linux dominates the web server market.

    On this feast of one of the great doctors of the Church, I dare to offer my speculation [*] that it might be because crucial code in Linux, notably storage allocation & deallocation, plus buffer management, was designed, written, and tested by a responsible adult, with his successors loyally following his lead in programming maturity.

    I confess that I have no sources to confirm my speculation; it's possible that many programmers faced a firing squad before Linux achieved the necessary level of quality & reliability.


    I remember some versions of Windows that needed to be rebooted several times a day.

    Ummm, yes, a testament to the immature hacking [Δ] and related slipshod programming for which Bill Gates--and his Microsoft--seems to have become the standard-bearer.  And yes: Any perceived insult is fully intended.

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    Note *: From extensive experience, which was unpleasant as often as not, and not really amenable to being boiled down to comparisons of programming languages.

    Note Δ: <https://www.cathinfo.com/computers-and-technology/cracker-vs-hacker/msg544840/#msg544840>.

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    Re: Linux rock solid - CI server has gone 331 days without reboot!
    « Reply #6 on: June 15, 2018, 09:42:21 AM »
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  • I still prefer the old cathinfo layout, but no blackouts is nice.

    I like the current one better ... much cleaner and easier to look at.

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    Re: Linux rock solid - CI server has gone 331 days without reboot!
    « Reply #7 on: June 15, 2018, 09:43:49 AM »
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  • I remember some versions of Windows that needed to be rebooted several times a day...

    Windows NT was a disaster that way.  I had to reboot it ever night, while the Linux server I had next to it ran for years without a reboot.


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    Re: Linux rock solid - CI server has gone 331 days without reboot!
    « Reply #8 on: July 13, 2018, 09:23:19 AM »
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  • I had some early RedHat boxes (before they started charging for it) that I let go for years without rebooting.
    CentOS is identical to RedHat, but free.
    Regarding uptime, I saw a customer Linux server here at work that had been up 2,870 days (over 7 years!).  It's bad to do that though.  It's good practice to reboot occasionally to get security updates and to make sure you don't have failing hard drives.