Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com> wrote:
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| >>>>Edi Weitz ("Edi") writes:
| Edi> It's still the same application that was started last June, all
| Edi> the objects (players, matches, bets) are still identical to what
| Edi> they were half a year ago. I think this is quite cool and
| Edi> virtually impossible with most other languages.
| 
| You've had a live production server running Apache and 
| your Lisp application, and it's been running continuously
| for at least six months with users?
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You're suprised at that? I'm not. Here's a Linux-based web server I
access a lot that uses Apache (and is soon about to run *my* Lisp
application, too):

    % uname -mrs
    Linux 2.4.3-12.2RS i586
    % uptime
      9:56am  up 295 days,  3:26,  1 user,  load average: 0.35, 0.13, 0.10
    % 

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| What OS and Lisp are you using?  I'm amazed that a Unix/Linux/Windows
| box could actually stay up in production for that long in the face of
| all the critical kernel patches I see every other week.  (On the other
| hand, one of my BSD servers usually stays up for about 3 months.)
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*Only* three months?  ;-}  ;-}

    % uname -mnrs
    FreeBSD fast.rpw3.org 4.6-RELEASE i386
    % uptime
     7:52AM  up 434 days,  3:09, 15 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
    % 

Note: That's my home/business workstation/server. Now that it's been up
for more that a year[1], I suppose I really should take it down long enough
to upgrade to FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE (which is what's on the laptop).

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| How many people are hitting on this thing?
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Not very many at one time, to be sure.  ;-}

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| Are you using a database?
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Dunno 'bout Edi, but I am[2]:

    % psql -V
    psql (PostgreSQL) 7.3.4
    % 


-Rob

[1] After five power outages in one weekend in late 2002 -- each much
    less than a minute, but each quite sufficient to crash/reboot the
    machine! -- I finally bought a UPS. It works quite nicely.

[2] From CMUCL, via Eric Marsden's "pg.lisp".

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