RE: Re: Kieran's comments was Last Night in London?

["Broadfoot, Kieran J" <Kieran.Broadfoot@xxxxxxx>]

The problem with pc's ignoring the problematic OS's is the hardware.  In
the
8 years I have been using Sun equipment I have never seen a power supply
failure.  Although we do lose hardware such as CPUs or failed memory if I
think about the number of machines I maintain the failure rate is very low.
Good quality hardware with an OS that is managed properly (ie if it works
dont touch it!) I think leads to a good stable system.  For anyone who is
interested I am going to be using s a sparc server 20 for my central
management box.

k.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 11:12 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Kieran's comments was Last Night in London?


On Friday 22 June 2001 19:02 pm, you wrote:
> > I agree with John, I would not trust a PC to run the house,
although I
> > do trust HV as it is mot MS based :-> hell, even Linux topples
over
> > occasionally so getting everything PC based for me is not an
option at
> > the moment.
>
> While this is not spectacular by any means it does prove that a nice
stable
> PC can run for weeks or months in an HA environment...
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukha_d/files/otto.gif

Even less spectacular, here is a paste of the "uptime" command on
my
firewall:
11:09am  up 131 days, 13:21,  1 user,  load average: 0.14, 0.03, 0.01

All it does is sit there and be a firewall, nothing else, and it's never
been
rebooted since I made it live. (Good job really because I don't have a
backup
of the masq & forwarding rules it has set up :-) )

I fully intend to use Linux on an old PC (486/low pentium based) soley
designed to run my house. I'll use my more powerfull server as a test bench
and perhaps write some software to act as device emulators for testing. I
volunteered to write the Perl module for our system, and on top of that I'm
planning to write a version of Misterhouse that's less resource hungry.

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