[ale] uptime?

[Thompson Freeman]

Hey! This _has_ to be a great question! (Largely due to the "Calculate
how... portion - quantify things!)

Regretably, much as I admire the question, I can only make qualitative
comments. Not quite the useful information requested.

By training from years ago on DEC minis, any system which takes a three
finger salute as part of the maintenance, gets a one finger salute
at the same time. No cost/benifit analysis is known to me however.

Likewise, when I sit to the keyboard, I expect things to be ready. I'm too
sloppy to worry about the last time the stupid thing was rebooted.

I'm looking forward to reading _real_ answers now.

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
> 
>   Was watching a discussion the other day.  Someone made a snide 
> anti-linux comment about everyone pro-linux being so impressed by uptimes
> and how useless they were.
> 
> 
>   At anyrate, I started wondering what good is an uptime in reality?  I'd
> like to know a real good use for it.  You can caluculate how since the
> last crash, etc.  I have my own reasons, but what are other good uses for
> this information?
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> :wq!
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> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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