LWN article about us

[Jim Popovitch]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 19:42 -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:
> Do you really think this is unstable:
> 
> (tigger pts2) $ uptime
>  18:57:26  up 346 days,  6:24, 95 users,  load average: 0.21, 0.28, 0.25

Ahem... uptime is no more a indicator of system stability (esp when
discussing servers) than df or /proc/mdstat.  All uptime shows you is
that the box has been up for a certain amount of time, no more, no less.
It doesn't indicate network status, process utilization, application
uptime, or system security.  The world is full of a lot of insecure,
hacked, bot'ed, trojan'ed (not the 'safe' way), spamming boxen that have
an uptime that puts yours to shame.  

About the only thing a 346 day uptime shows is that you haven't updated
your kernel in a while. ;-)  

-Jim P.