10 days uptime good?

[Acanthus]

I was at 61 days until a power outage forced me to shut down before the UPS ran out of power yesterday

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: Special1Sauce
My computer has been restarted once in the past 13 days. I am running nothing but F@H for Anand Tech!

One of the best stability testers there is at this time IMHO A Gromacs WU has nuked a P95TT&memtest certified stable overclock on me so I feel Gromacs > P95TT for stability testing.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea, without stress at 100%, it doesn't mean much. i recently had a system with bad ram. it could run hours without dying.. but with prime95 stress test.. i could freeze it in minutes.

 

[Jojo7]

Originally posted by: EeyoreX

Time to counter-rant.

I don't get why you need to shut your computer down. It's not like it involves any thought or is a chore or something. If your computer gets "increasing slower every day" your computer has problems. My computer gets turned off/rebooted when it needs to be (ie, updates, hardware installs, etc). My file server is currently at about 25 days without a reboot. And it isn't slower than day one. If you want to turn your computer off and think it affects your speed you either a) have a 9x based OS running, b) have a poorly configured computer, c) run a lot of retarded or badly coded software, or d) any combination, or all of, the previous.

\Dan

First of all, a file server is a completely different thing. You can't even compare a file server's uptime to a computer you use to surf the net, play games, or whatever.

 

[Schadenfroh]

i have ran my desktop up to 1 month without rebooting crunching seti before

 

[EeyoreX]

First of all, a file server is a completely different thing. You can't even compare a file server's uptime to a computer you use to surf the net, play games, or whatever.

Okay, if my Windows XP file server isn't a good comparison for you, I'll talk about my main box. (It's hardly a "real" server, just a box that stores my files.) My actually main box, the one I use to play games, surf, email, even do some actual work on. My current uptime is at almost 13 days. The bottom line is still the same. My computer doesn't "get slow" by running 24/7 for days, or weeks and sometimes months at a time. And I still contend my original points are the same.

\Dan

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: Sid59
uptime isn't a great indicator of system stable-ness. As txxxx said, Prime95 is the way to go.

Well, that doesn't make much sense at all.

If the system doesn't crash, then that sounds like a damn good indicator (of it being stable) to me. Who cares what happens with Prime95 if the system is flawless for whatever you use it for?

 

[abaez]

Operating System: (Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1 (5.1 - 2600)) ¤ Uptime: (3w 3d 22h 45s) ¤ Record: (7wks 17hrs 13mins 33secs(Set on 28/01/04 using XP))

 

[EeyoreX]

uptime isn't a great indicator of system stable-ness. As txxxx said, Prime95 is the way to go.

Well, that doesn't make much sense at all.

If the system doesn't crash, then that sounds like a damn good indicator (of it being stable) to me. Who cares what happens with Prime95 if the system is flawless for whatever you use it for?

I agree with that, I forgot to mention this as well in my earlier posts. Who cares what Prime says if my PC never crashes otherwise? The only test of stability or benchmark I ever perform is to actually use my computer. If it has a problem, something isn't right. If it doesn't have any problems, everything is fine.

\Dan

 

[XRdirtHead]

Sounds good to me

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: Crazyfool
To respond to the original question...

10 days uptime is great if you are using your system to it's max! If you are running a server or other Linux application it's not that big of a deal, so those Linux dudes need to get over it... it's easy to have a system run forever when it's hardly used.

But for an overclocked gaming system this is great!

WTF would be the point of running a server that's hardly ever used? They don't call them servers because they're used under light loads..... Do you honestly believe that you somehow task your system more then hundreds of users on a server?

Thorin

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: EeyoreX

First of all, a file server is a completely different thing. You can't even compare a file server's uptime to a computer you use to surf the net, play games, or whatever.

Okay, if my Windows XP file server isn't a good comparison for you, I'll talk about my main box. (It's hardly a "real" server, just a box that stores my files.) My actually main box, the one I use to play games, surf, email, even do some actual work on. My current uptime is at almost 13 days. The bottom line is still the same. My computer doesn't "get slow" by running 24/7 for days, or weeks and sometimes months at a time. And I still contend my original points are the same.

\Dan

I agree if you're system is getting slow over time then you're running an app with a memory leak, have something misconfigured, have it loaded up with a crap load of adware/spyware, or a virus. If you machine is well cared for and configured properly (server, workstation, or desktop) it's performance should never decrease.

Thorin

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: beatle
Thorin, do you have a screenshot of your Samurize setup? The screenshot section of samurize.com is currently down. I'm currently using SysMetrix to monitor my local box and CoolMon to monitor my networked boxes.

I had 65 days on my backup server when I had to power it down to remove my UPS. My desktop rarely makes it past a week due to driver updates, windows update or other software installs that require reboots.

FYI the samurize.com ScreenShot section is back:
http://www.samurize.com/modules/myalbum/

Thorin

 

[sman789]

back at it again...hasnt been off since the return of spring break...lets see if this can go on until finals

10 days 17 hrs 51 mins

 

[CraigRT]

if it's high usage that's good enough
it shouldn't crash, but you may notice a slowdown over a period of time, which would in turn make you reboot.
although the PC should actually be able to go a lot longer than that

 

[Sid59]

i had 30 day uptime until itunes crashed .. stupid itunes.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Jojo7
Time to rant.

I don't get these people that say "I haven't rebooted my computer in xxx days". To them I ask, "Why not?". It's not like it's a chore or something that involves alot of thought.

It's a chore to have to reopen 20 things at the beginning of every day. Leaving the computer on is equivelant to sticking a bookmark in a book: you can start right where you stopped. Some people actually do significant things on their computers, not just web surfing and game playing.

Are you that much of a masochist that you like your computer to get increasingly slower every day you have it on?

Hah, now why would it do that? Even NT-based Windows' don't do that. Sounds like you're stuck in the 90s.

 

[Duvie]

I don't put much stock in "uptime"...I put it in into how many days since it has crashed!!!

Take away testing I did with bios settings and speeds for reviews in the month of January, my installation of applications requiring a reboot, and my son shutting my system off....I haven't crashed or had instability since 2nd week of December with rig in my sig....

An unstable system can sit idles for weeks and just takes that one moment of 100% load or runny a cpu, graphics, or memory intensive app to end that quickly....

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I thought peoples' computers didn't crash much nowadays? What happened to all of the stability of windows XP people talk so much about?

 

[EeyoreX]

I thought peoples' computers didn't crash much nowadays? What happened to all of the stability of windows XP people talk so much about?

I have found Windows XP to be incredibly stable. Since it was released I have had one crash. And it was my fault (that's what I get for forcing the wrong driver). Mostly crashes are caused by hardware problems or craptacular software (other than Windows). At least in my experience. Almost every problem that I have dealt with (both 2000 and XP) has been solved by finding the hardware problem or removing the offending software. That may just be my experience, but from those around me it's the same for them too.

\Dan

 

[JediJeb]

I have had my home box running W2K up for close to 6 months before using IM and surfing the net every night and running SETi at the same time, and that was with an ECS K7S5a. At work we have boxes running WinNT4 that use Excel( bad about memory leaks) and acquireing data from analytical instruments 24/7 which easily make it for 6 months without crashing or getting slow.