[rescue] Mainframe on eBay

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Peter wrote:
> Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>Due to said problems, I can pretty much expect
>>ohno.mrbill.net/SunHELP to reboot itself roughly every 2-3 months.
>>I'll have a day or two of flakiness, then everything's fine for
>>another 60-90 days.
> 
> 
> That's appalling.
> 
> I have x86 boxes I consider unreliable and have thrown away, yet
> they're not that bad. Heck, some of the Linux boxes (yes, x86 - mainly
> P3 and P4) under my wing had uptimes of over a year before we decided
> to have an orderly reboot to clear out any memory leaks and fsck the
> disks.

I have an RS/6000 320E running AIX 3 that I haven't rebooted in nine years.

Peace...  Sridhar