smbclient feature request
Hall, Ken (ECSS)
KeHall at exchange.ml.com
Fri Oct 15 12:42:56 GMT 1999
I was reading a comment on Linux Weekly News this morning about something
Microsoft had published to the effect that there were vendors guaranteeing
99.9% uptime for NT. The guy who wrote the reply did the math for what that
means, and the results are very interesting.
Quote below:
OK, now what does a 99.9% uptime guarantee mean? Well, it means that
at bottom,
a guarantee that the machine will not be down for more than one
one-thousandth
of the time. If we assume that we have a stable system, ie., one
where the
system is not taken down for software upgrades, etc., then we are
looking at
the time from a system crash (strictly, I think, from the time that
the crash
is actually noticed) to the time that the system is running again.
So, below is
a little table that shows the best guaranteed up-times for various
values of
the above restart time, rounded up.
Restart time Uptime
10 mins 7 days
30 mins 21 days
120 mins 84 days
etc .....
The conclusion I draw is that either (a) NT crashes very often and
is quick
to restart or (b) NT crashes less often but takes a long time to
restart..
Considering I've had Netware servers and UNIX boxes that stayed up for 6
months at a time, maybe we need to re-think what constitutes acceptable
availability. "99.9%" sounds great, but if you look at it this way, it's
really pretty abysmal.
Anyone care to do the math for their Samba/Linux systems for comparison?
Mine gets rebooted less than once a month.
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