[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Forster, Michael]

For me, Server 2008 R2 has needed few reboots between monthly patch sessions.

On May 18, 2011, at 9:22 PM, "Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> On 2011-05-18 18.08, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> On 5/18/2011 12:30 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2011-05-18 08.15, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>> On 5/18/2011 10:44 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
>>>>> In article<GowAp.961$t41.959 at newsfe25.ams2>, ChrisQ<meru at devnull.com>
>>>>> writes:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Irrespective of os, Vms, Tru64, Linux or even windows xp, modern
>>>>>> systems
>>>>>> just keep going until you need to change something, or power fail...
>>>>> 
>>>>> Right, my XP system hasn't crashed since, um, a few days ago.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In fact, it's gotten so it only completes a successful shutdown
>>>>> 50% of the time. The other 50% it insists on hanging instead.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I've been running Windows XP SP3 for several years now. It's stable as a
>>>> table! About the only time I reboot is following a power outrage long
>>>> enough to run down my UPS.
>>>> 
>>>> Windows has come a LONG way!!! I can recall, dimly, Windows 2 point
>>>> something. You were lucky to get twenty or thirty minutes between
>>>> reboots.
>>> 
>>> You never install any security updates? :-)
>>> 
>>> Johnny
>>> 
>> 
>> I didn't say never! Try seldom. The worst problems with XP were fixed
>> long ago. The system is on a home network with a router that will not
>> allow incoming connections that are not responses to outgoing requests.
>> 
>> It's not perfect security but it's "good enough".
> 
> It's just that you said "About the only time I reboot is following a 
> power outrage long enough to run down my UPS.", which don't match my 
> experience with XP, where you need to reboot every other week because of 
> updates.
> (And then of course, I have the occasional crash as well, but reboots 
> are almost always happening long before I have any uptime to speak 
> about, so who knows what happens to an XP system that is up for more 
> than two months. I've not seen a single one that didn't need a reboot 
> long before that.)
> 
>    Johnny
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