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Uptime Bragging rights :)

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Fuzznuts

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whats the longest you have had box up for just curious ya see 🙂

we had a rh (6.1 i think?) box up for 1yr and 2wks it was in an old isp i worked for it ran as a secondary dns server and smtp relay. it ran flawless for all that time was only took down becasue the NIC died afaik that kind of uptime is not unheard of amongst the BSD and NIX's out there. somebody must be able to beat it 🙂
 
I've kept a Windows box up for 2 weeks (then rebooted to install some software). My Linux record is about a month, and I think that was prematurely terminated by a power outage. The fact remains that I can not keep a box up for very long, simply because I have this insatiable desire to tweak stuff, and the power company in the rural area where I live ain't too reliable. 😉

<-- needs to get a UPS or two for his systems.
 
if i had not moved to a new place recently, my 6yr olds and mine would have both been up for a couple of months, invariably you load new software, hardware, etc... pretty sure these systems would run without fail for a year though 😀

running XP Pro on both....
 
What about kernel updates and stuff? I'm sure RH 7.2 has had some critical kernel updates in the past year if I recall correctly.
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Yea but none of them affected that box, I'm off the idea that if it ain't broke don't fix it. One of them was for a local DoS there's only two users, one of which is me and the other is trustworth so that's no big deal, one was for ext3 with data=journal and a tg3 gigabit lockup neither of which are used on that box.

OpenBSD Highest Uptime: 886d 20h 17m ... That's sick.
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One problem is that Linux uptimes wrap back to zero after a certain time (~400 days IIRC) so if a Linux box has been up longer than that noone will know. It's not a trivial fix, meaning the change can break userland apps, and since most people reboot to update their kernel more often than that it's not been worried about. Even so, it has been fixed in the current 2.5 development line.
 
My longest was 60 or 80 something days here at home, I tend to mess with things here way too much to get any kind of useful uptime 😉

1:51PM up 5 days, 18:44, 4 users, load averages: 2.37, 2.22, 2.17

and that's my router/firewall/web/mail/dns machine :Q
 
Redhat 7.0 #1

# uptime
3:01pm up 411 days, 2:01, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.01, 0.00

Redhat 7.0 #2

uptime
3:02pm up 210 days, 6:10, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00

Edit: Sometimes I even forget where those two boxes are 🙂
 
I had a couple of Netware 3.x boxes that were up for 5+ years. I was scared to power them down because the drives surely wouldn't spin up again.
 
Got a couple NT 4.0 servers here that have been up for over 3 years. They were purchased new with P2 400 processors in them if that gives you an idea of how long they've been running.


edit: read an article about some novell server that this university had. They were doing some network upgrades and found an "extra" server on the network. Turns out the thing had been long ago forgotten and, get this.. drywalled into an unused part of the building during some renovations. It took them weeks to find the physical location of the thing but it was happily running when they broke through some drywall and found it. Good ole novell. Miss those guys.
 
Originally posted by: Smilin
Got a couple NT 4.0 servers here that have been up for over 3 years. They were purchased new with P2 400 processors in them if that gives you an idea of how long they've been running.


edit: read an article about some novell server that this university had. They were doing some network upgrades and found an "extra" server on the network. Turns out the thing had been long ago forgotten and, get this.. drywalled into an unused part of the building during some renovations. It took them weeks to find the physical location of the thing but it was happily running when they broke through some drywall and found it. Good ole novell. Miss those guys.
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yep...i remember reading 'bout that 🙂
 
It's not uncommon for some of my servers to be up for 2-4 months, but whenever I come across updates that actually effect me I make it a point to apply them. I dont think I've made it past 6 months or so without something "important" coming along.

-Spy
 
The longest that I've had is like 2 months, but I find more glory in a really small power bill than a really high uptime.

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It's not uncommon for some of my servers to be up for 2-4 months, but whenever I come across updates that actually effect me I make it a point to apply them. I dont think I've made it past 6 months or so without something "important" coming along.
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I've installed plenty of updates on the mentioned Linux boxes, although I don't have to reboot unless it's a kernel update which is mighty convenient =)
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
It's not uncommon for some of my servers to be up for 2-4 months, but whenever I come across updates that actually effect me I make it a point to apply them. I dont think I've made it past 6 months or so without something "important" coming along.
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I've installed plenty of updates on the mentioned Linux boxes, although I don't have to reboot unless it's a kernel update which is mighty convenient =)
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dont I know it, just have to love windows

IE 6 update, time to reboot the OS. Every time I just have to scratch my head and roll my eyes
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http://uptimes.wonko.com/
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Very cool site, sounds like the guy running it is a good guy too. I just added some of my boxes to it 😀

should work better than uptime.exe, and it has pretty little graphs...

-Spy
 
Originally posted by: Saltin
Uptime means very little.
The real yardstick one should measure by is availability.
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agreed, the only problem with availability is that it isnt always as easily measureable.

besides when you are reporting your network uptime to inquiring minds it's easy to say "the server has been running for the last 45 days" than to explain the availability (it also makes you look better).

That and this thread is about "the longest you've had a box up for" and not "the longest you've had a network service up for" 😉

-Spy
 
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