[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[David Froble]

Jay E. Morris wrote:
> On 1/28/2013 9:18 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article 
>> <e080d945-0523-4e37-a5cf-2abb7c76090f at y5g2000pbi.googlegroups.com>, 
>> AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>>>
>>> At one job I interviewed at in the late 90's they rebooted the VAX
>>> every day!
>>
>>     We had an installation that we were putting small VAXen into that
>>     had grown up around IBM mainframes.  Our people had changed the
>>     mainframe from never rebooting, to rebooting once a week "just to
>>     clean things up".  Seemed to work.
>>
>>     We just looked at our IBM experts like they were lost in the past.
>>     Mostly the VAXen rebooted after power loss (couldn't justify an UPS).
>>
>>     Had another site where some of the VAXen had two completely different
>>     environments, major differences in SYSGEN parameters and sometimes
>>     differences in OS versions.  Stored each on removable disk packs and
>>     rebooted at least twice a day to switch between environments.
>>
> 
> We had an engineer on site from ...whoever did Mumps... about some 
> upgrades.  At one point she asked me when was the last time I'd rebooted 
> the Alphas.  When I told her over two years she said that I needed to 
> reboot them at least weekly.

Probably the best course was to ask her "Why?" and the justifications.

> I told her that what we really needed was 
> to be in a three story building instead of just one.
> 
> Huh?
> 
> So I can throw you out a window.
> 
> We didn't get along well after that.

But yeah, I know that feeling ....

:-)