Re: Building Big Ass Linux Machine, what are the limits?

Chris Zwilling (chris@cloudnet.com)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 19:58:56 -0500 (CDT)


On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

>
> > I have linux servers that have run for half a year or more - only stopped
> > by power outages.
>
> Big ass busy ones, or sit in the corner small time web servers? I have
> one of the latter that ran for >1.6 years before being rebooted to
> physically move it.
>

A news server with 30GB of storage recieving two ihave feeds from seperate
providers while serving up news to at least a dozen people and sucking
news from another feed of the less popular groups. This machine is IO
bound. ;)

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