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On 25/04/2013 09:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 24/04/2013 17:22, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>>> On 2013-04-24 6:27 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> Here's my pair of MTAs: |
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>>>> $ uptime |
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>>>> 12:24PM up 1295 days, 13:10, 1 user, load averages: 0.19, 0.20, |
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>> 0.31 |
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>>>> $ uptime |
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>>>> 12:24PM up 1925 days, 20:30, 4 users, load averages: 0.90, 0.75, |
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>> 0.84 |
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>>>> Those two just keep on accepting and dealing with mail, they do that |
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>> a |
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>>>> million times a day and according to uptime have been doing it for |
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>>>> years. |
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>>> ? Looks like 3.5 years and 5.2 years, respectively... |
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>>> You seriously haven't upgraded your kernel on those machines for |
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>> 3.5/5.2 |
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>>> years?? |
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>> Yes, something like that. |
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>> Politics get involved. But please let's not go there - the pain is too |
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>> much to bear :-) |
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>> -- |
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>> Alan McKinnon |
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>> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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> Alan. |
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> I wouldn't want to be present when those do get shut down. I wonder if the disks would spin back up as the bearings might have deteriorated by now... |
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Bingo. You correctly assessed the main technical risk. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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