7 years of up time
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7 Years of up time on a Microsoft SQL server, impressive yes, but imagine the "Windows is updating prompt"
It'll be there for another 7 years before it comes up...
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Follow-up and the OP is proud he's been able to avoid "Patch Tuesday"..
This should be good. . .
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@DustinB3403 what could possibly go wrong with a server 7 years behind it's updates....
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@aaron said in 7 years of up time:
To me that's negligence not impressive
Oh I agree, but the up time for a windows server ain't to bad...
I mean when was the last time you've ever heard of a server with that kind of up time?
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@gjacobse said in 7 years of up time:
My wife acts like that's how I drive, but I can assure you, there are a few less explosions.
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@aaron said in 7 years of up time:
@DustinB3403 said in 7 years of up time:
@aaron said in 7 years of up time:
To me that's negligence not impressive
Oh I agree, but the up time for a windows server ain't to bad...
I mean when was the last time you've ever heard of a server with that kind of up time?
It's been awhile. I rebooted a machine recently that had a 300+ day uptime and I thought that was crazy. This was Linux though, for Windows I still think that 300 day would be crazy.
While things have changed considerably since,... but I took a stance when I had a Windows 95 machine running to reload it about every six months. It seem really ridiculous that the system would get so bogged down with crud and such.
Of course it was pretty easy to rebuild from the self booting CD, including Office and such, and update from there, build a new CD and move forward...
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It's very quiet here around here today.
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This guy is as lucky as this kid...
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@DustinB3403 said in 7 years of up time:
@aaron said in 7 years of up time:
To me that's negligence not impressive
Oh I agree, but the up time for a windows server ain't to bad...
I mean when was the last time you've ever heard of a server with that kind of up time?
is it impressive though? if you need to reboot to install updates/security fixes, then you need to reboot. That whole uptime thing is just a crock! Something Unix admins love to brag about. Can Unix really update the kernel without rebooting the OS? If yes, then why doesn't Windows do that too?
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@Dashrender said in 7 years of up time:
@DustinB3403 said in 7 years of up time:
@aaron said in 7 years of up time:
To me that's negligence not impressive
Oh I agree, but the up time for a windows server ain't to bad...
I mean when was the last time you've ever heard of a server with that kind of up time?
is it impressive though? if you need to reboot to install updates/security fixes, then you need to reboot. That whole uptime thing is just a crock! Something Unix admins love to brag about. Can Unix really update the kernel without rebooting the OS? If yes, then why doesn't Windows do that too?
UNIX, not that I know of (been quite a while), Linux, yes, yes it can.
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@travisdh1 said in 7 years of up time:
@Dashrender said in 7 years of up time:
@DustinB3403 said in 7 years of up time:
@aaron said in 7 years of up time:
To me that's negligence not impressive
Oh I agree, but the up time for a windows server ain't to bad...
I mean when was the last time you've ever heard of a server with that kind of up time?
is it impressive though? if you need to reboot to install updates/security fixes, then you need to reboot. That whole uptime thing is just a crock! Something Unix admins love to brag about. Can Unix really update the kernel without rebooting the OS? If yes, then why doesn't Windows do that too?
UNIX, not that I know of (been quite a while), Linux, yes, yes it can.
Then the same question applies, why can Linux do it and Windows can't?
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@Dashrender said in 7 years of up time:
@travisdh1 said in 7 years of up time:
@Dashrender said in 7 years of up time:
@DustinB3403 said in 7 years of up time:
@aaron said in 7 years of up time:
To me that's negligence not impressive
Oh I agree, but the up time for a windows server ain't to bad...
I mean when was the last time you've ever heard of a server with that kind of up time?
is it impressive though? if you need to reboot to install updates/security fixes, then you need to reboot. That whole uptime thing is just a crock! Something Unix admins love to brag about. Can Unix really update the kernel without rebooting the OS? If yes, then why doesn't Windows do that too?
UNIX, not that I know of (been quite a while), Linux, yes, yes it can.
Then the same question applies, why can Linux do it and Windows can't?
Linux only relatively recently gained this ability (2 years since I found out about the capability, and ~1 year that it's be included in the kernel.) It's not a trivial process, and nobody outside of Microsoft has any idea if their kernel is even capable of replacing itself on a live system.
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@DustinB3403 said in 7 years of up time:
@aaron said in 7 years of up time:
To me that's negligence not impressive
Oh I agree, but the up time for a windows server ain't to bad...
I mean when was the last time you've ever heard of a server with that kind of up time?
Normally people get fired before it goes that far.
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@aaronstuder said in 7 years of up time:
@Dashrender said:
Can Unix really update the kernel without rebooting the OS?
No.
Some can. It's specific to the OS and sometimes hardware.
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@scottalanmiller said in 7 years of up time:
@aaronstuder said in 7 years of up time:
@Dashrender said:
Can Unix really update the kernel without rebooting the OS?
No.
Some can. It's specific to the OS and sometimes hardware.
yeah, that's what I was thinking.
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@travisdh1 said in 7 years of up time:
@Dashrender said in 7 years of up time:
@travisdh1 said in 7 years of up time:
@Dashrender said in 7 years of up time:
@DustinB3403 said in 7 years of up time:
@aaron said in 7 years of up time:
To me that's negligence not impressive
Oh I agree, but the up time for a windows server ain't to bad...
I mean when was the last time you've ever heard of a server with that kind of up time?
is it impressive though? if you need to reboot to install updates/security fixes, then you need to reboot. That whole uptime thing is just a crock! Something Unix admins love to brag about. Can Unix really update the kernel without rebooting the OS? If yes, then why doesn't Windows do that too?
UNIX, not that I know of (been quite a while), Linux, yes, yes it can.
Then the same question applies, why can Linux do it and Windows can't?
Linux only relatively recently gained this ability (2 years since I found out about the capability, and ~1 year that it's be included in the kernel.) It's not a trivial process, and nobody outside of Microsoft has any idea if their kernel is even capable of replacing itself on a live system.
It's been around at least five years but almost no one cared. So it was not pushed.
