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Holo · 02-21-2004, 03:32 PM

We all know how cool having a big uptime makes you and the effects it has on your genitalia. Post your best uptime on a system and it's basic specs.

This system is my web storage and misc stuff and is almost 4.5 years old. It is an Emachines 366i2 and has never had a breakdown, only upgrades.

OS-[Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 3 (5.0 - 2195)]-
Up Time-[15w 1d 6h 36m 19s]-
CPU-[1-Intel P2 Celeron, 367MHz, 128KB (100% Load)]-
Memory-[Usage: 93/128MB (72.66%)]-
Video Card-[Headless with VNC administration]
Resolution-[800 x 600]-
Total Space Free-[1.86Gb out of 12.64Gb]-

I'm impressed with 15 weeks 1 day (106 days) on such an ancient machine, and an emachines at that. This was the first computer of my own I got on the web with and it's still rolling strong, cranking out better uptimes than my 1.8 Ghz

. How about yours?

asshopo · 02-21-2004, 03:58 PM

My work's dns/mail/misc website server:

[paulh@newdns paulh]$ uptime
6:57pm up 119 days, 18:17, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.07, 0.02
[paulh@newdns paulh]$

That's prolly the best at this point cause everything else has been patched or rebooted just because. My windows boxes usually never make it past Tuesday mornings :-P.

Dragonlich · 02-21-2004, 11:54 PM

I once read a story about a server somewhere, where they had accidentally put a wall up in front of it. Nobody knew where the thing was for years, and nobody had to know, since it worked fine all the time. Now *that* is uptime.

Mephex · 02-22-2004, 12:04 AM

2:00am up 362 days, 17:09, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.14, 0.09

RH6.1 fileserver, 600MHz PIII with 512MB ram, 3x60GB hdd.

Holo · 02-22-2004, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mephex
2:00am up 362 days, 17:09, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.14, 0.09

RH6.1 fileserver, 600MHz PIII with 512MB ram, 3x60GB hdd.

Always a Linux showoff in every crowd.

That's a nice uptime. Unfortunately I'll never be able to get that high due to the summer weather of Florida knocking out the power every week. I can only pull off good uptimes in winter.

@Dragonlich:

You're correct. It was a Novell server in UNC.

http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012

oberon · 02-22-2004, 08:23 AM

Been done before

Oh, and that last machine I posted in that thread?

5:15PM up 612 days, 19:46, 0 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01

FreeBSD webserver, P166, 64MB, 2.5GB HDD. And it was active up until a week ago. Now she sits around while we wait to celebrate.

Seriously now, I've seen a couple of (FreeBSD primarily) systems with over 3 years... and there are doubtless many systems around academia that are still running, long since forgotten.

mpedrummer2 · 02-22-2004, 09:26 AM

European railway switching network...

According to the OpenVMS for dummies book, it's had an uptime of 27 years, and the last time it went down was because the uptime counter could only handle 10 years.

Runs OpenVMS.

DEI37 · 02-22-2004, 09:45 AM

My server hasn't been completely powered down in about a year, but has had to reboot with Windows updates occasionally. Last reboot was 27d 13h 25m 02s ago.

propaganda · 02-22-2004, 09:53 AM

I used to pat myself on the back when I could keep a computer on longer then a week. You guys put me to shame...

Pragma · 02-22-2004, 10:53 AM

Running a few OpenBSD servers at work that haven't been rebooted in over two years. Quite a stable OS, gotta love it.

WarWagon · 02-22-2004, 11:22 AM

I'm always bouncing around travelling so the laptop gets shut down rather often, but the longest ut on it thus far was about 3 months.

sailor · 02-22-2004, 11:33 AM

My webserver has been up for nearly 180 days now. Remarkable seeing as it is literally taped together, and has no UPS. Im surprised it hasnt been brought down by a power outage.

Its running RedHat 8. I will soon bring it down to switch to Debian since I can no longer support RedHat.

urbandev · 02-23-2004, 03:31 AM

mia.hn.org
Uptime: 1,745 Days (almost 5 years...)
BSD with Apache

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

merkerguitars · 02-23-2004, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Holo
Always a Linux showoff in every crowd.

That's a nice uptime. Unfortunately I'll never be able to get that high due to the summer weather of Florida knocking out the power every week. I can only pull off good uptimes in winter.

@Dragonlich:

You're correct. It was a Novell server in UNC.

http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012

Pretty amazing it being a novell server

Glava · 12-04-2004, 07:45 AM

11 days and still going. Yeah, I'm a lightweight.

Glava · 12-04-2004, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glava

11 days and still going. Yeah, I'm a lightweight.

And half an hour later, I get a BSOD.

shadowalker · 12-04-2004, 08:25 AM

47 days, 15 hours, Direct connected to a friend when we tried to copy a hdd to another system via 14.4 dial up.

asshopo · 12-04-2004, 08:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by urbandev

mia.hn.org
Uptime: 1,745 Days (almost 5 years...)
BSD with Apache

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

So, whats yer ip again? Im sure 5 years of no kernel updates should make for some good hackin'

asshopo · 12-04-2004, 08:49 AM

Our firewall Linux Bridge+IPTables at our NOC:

12:50:04 up 158 days, 10:39, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Glava · 12-04-2004, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowalker

47 days, 15 hours, Direct connected to a friend when we tried to copy a hdd to another system via 14.4 dial up.

Did you succeed?

skaven · 12-04-2004, 11:11 AM

My fileserver has a pretty decent uptime ever since I put it on UPS power:

[skaven@geofront:~]$ uptime
13:08:11 up 75 days, 11:19, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00

Specs:
Abit KT7A, T-bred @ 1466Mhz
1G PC133
OS: Slackware 9.1
5x 160G Seagate Barracuda hard drives (4=RAID5, 1=System)

My RAID volume is already almost full, so I'll probably be adding another 8 160G disks in the near future (12x160Gb=1.7Tb + 160Gb parity)

Gotta say that these seagate drives kick ass as far as reliability goes.

Pragma · 12-06-2004, 06:27 AM

WindowsXP machine (my desktop) - I had an uptime of 32 days last month before I decided to reboot, because it was getting slightly unstable.

As for my servers:
9:23AM up 173 days, 18:26, 1 user, load averages: 0.38, 0.16, 0.10
And the others got hit by a power outage recently.

bendsley · 12-06-2004, 07:21 AM

My spam proxy where I work.

spam:~# uptime
09:15:01 up 58 days, 12:12, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.01

Running Debian unstable. 2.4 kernel, Dell PowerEdge 1.3Ghz, 1gig ram, 2x36gig hdd

Redjake · 12-06-2004, 07:25 AM

There's no telling what my uptime record is simply for my PC, but I can definitely tell you what it is for AOL Instant Messenger:

15 Days 12 Hours

Almost beat my friends record. So close. She beat me with 16 days on a Hewlett Packard.

15 Days uptime on AIM is a feat, especially if your on-campus internet is unstable.

I realized later that I had installed numerous programs (battlefield: vietnam, desert combat patch, FTP programs, office 2003, etc.) without restarting my computer during that time (the AIM record) so I think I technically won. My computer was getting bogged down at the end due to no restarts and mass program installation and AIM eventually froze. My friend's Hewlett Packard is a browser machine and that's pretty much it. I declare an unofficial victory

zxello · 12-07-2004, 04:55 PM

my windows gaming machine running windows xp pro, amd athlon xp 3200, geforce fx 5950, was up and running for over a month once, and still able to play games really well on it =)

shadowalker · 12-07-2004, 05:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glava

Did you succeed?

nope, cat knocked the phone off the hook.

txd · 12-08-2004, 02:51 AM

I'm more concerned with making sure patches are applied. While you can get away without rebooting on some, you just cant avoid it with kernel related ones.

Having said that I discovered a WinNT box on a customers network with an uptime of 476 days.

The_Dude · 12-08-2004, 03:33 AM

mine's like 2days (i shut down at nite cuz of the lights lol)

bendsley · 12-08-2004, 08:25 AM

My network monitoring server:
janus:~# uptime
10:28:31 up 50 days, 2:59, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.44, 0.45

02-21-2004, 03:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
Holo A Real American	Best Uptime on a system. We all know how cool having a big uptime makes you and the effects it has on your genitalia. Post your best uptime on a system and it's basic specs. This system is my web storage and misc stuff and is almost 4.5 years old. It is an Emachines 366i2 and has never had a breakdown, only upgrades. OS-[Windows 2000 Professional, Service Pack 3 (5.0 - 2195)]- Up Time-[15w 1d 6h 36m 19s]- CPU-[1-Intel P2 Celeron, 367MHz, 128KB (100% Load)]- Memory-[Usage: 93/128MB (72.66%)]- Video Card-[Headless with VNC administration] Resolution-[800 x 600]- Total Space Free-[1.86Gb out of 12.64Gb]- I'm impressed with 15 weeks 1 day (106 days) on such an ancient machine, and an emachines at that. This was the first computer of my own I got on the web with and it's still rolling strong, cranking out better uptimes than my 1.8 Ghz . How about yours? __________________ I happen to like the words "fuck", "cock", "pussy", "tits", "cunt", "twat", "shit" and even "bitch". As long as I am not using them to describe you, don't go telling me whether or not I can/should use them...that is, if you want me to continue refraining from using them to describe you. ~Prince

02-22-2004, 08:23 AM	#6 (permalink)
oberon Quadrature Amplitude Modulator Location: Denver	Been done before Oh, and that last machine I posted in that thread? 5:15PM up 612 days, 19:46, 0 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 FreeBSD webserver, P166, 64MB, 2.5GB HDD. And it was active up until a week ago. Now she sits around while we wait to celebrate. Seriously now, I've seen a couple of (FreeBSD primarily) systems with over 3 years... and there are doubtless many systems around academia that are still running, long since forgotten. __________________ "There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught." -- Irish proverb

02-22-2004, 09:26 AM	#7 (permalink)
mpedrummer2 Insane	European railway switching network... According to the OpenVMS for dummies book, it's had an uptime of 27 years, and the last time it went down was because the uptime counter could only handle 10 years. Runs OpenVMS. __________________ My sig can beat up your honor student.

02-22-2004, 09:45 AM	#8 (permalink)
DEI37 Go faster! Location: Wisconsin	My server hasn't been completely powered down in about a year, but has had to reboot with Windows updates occasionally. Last reboot was 27d 13h 25m 02s ago. __________________ Generally speaking, if you were to get what you really deserve, you might be unpleasantly surprised.

02-22-2004, 10:53 AM	#10 (permalink)
Pragma I am Winter Born Location: Alexandria, VA	Running a few OpenBSD servers at work that haven't been rebooted in over two years. Quite a stable OS, gotta love it. __________________ Eat antimatter, Posleen-boy!

02-21-2004, 03:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
asshopo Insane Location: Michigan	My work's dns/mail/misc website server: [paulh@newdns paulh]$ uptime 6:57pm up 119 days, 18:17, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.07, 0.02 [paulh@newdns paulh]$ That's prolly the best at this point cause everything else has been patched or rebooted just because. My windows boxes usually never make it past Tuesday mornings :-P.

02-21-2004, 11:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
Dragonlich 42, baby! Location: The Netherlands	I once read a story about a server somewhere, where they had accidentally put a wall up in front of it. Nobody knew where the thing was for years, and nobody had to know, since it worked fine all the time. Now that is uptime.

02-22-2004, 12:04 AM	#4 (permalink)
Mephex Psycho	2:00am up 362 days, 17:09, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.14, 0.09 RH6.1 fileserver, 600MHz PIII with 512MB ram, 3x60GB hdd.

02-22-2004, 09:53 AM	#9 (permalink)
propaganda Psycho	I used to pat myself on the back when I could keep a computer on longer then a week. You guys put me to shame...

02-22-2004, 11:22 AM	#11 (permalink)
WarWagon Loser	I'm always bouncing around travelling so the laptop gets shut down rather often, but the longest ut on it thus far was about 3 months.

02-22-2004, 11:33 AM	#12 (permalink)
sailor beauty in the breakdown Location: Chapel Hill, NC	My webserver has been up for nearly 180 days now. Remarkable seeing as it is literally taped together, and has no UPS. Im surprised it hasnt been brought down by a power outage. Its running RedHat 8. I will soon bring it down to switch to Debian since I can no longer support RedHat. __________________ "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato

02-23-2004, 03:31 AM	#13 (permalink)
urbandev Insane Location: Dayton, NV	mia.hn.org Uptime: 1,745 Days (almost 5 years...) BSD with Apache http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html __________________ Raoul Duke: "I wouldn't dare go to sleep with you wandering around with a head full of acid, wanting to slice me up with that goddamn knife." Dr. Gonzo: "Who said anything about slicing you up, man. I just wanted to cut a little Z in your forehead."

12-04-2004, 07:45 AM	#15 (permalink)
Glava Betitled	11 days and still going. Yeah, I'm a lightweight.

12-04-2004, 08:25 AM	#17 (permalink)
shadowalker Psycho Location: Firefox yourself and change the world!	47 days, 15 hours, Direct connected to a friend when we tried to copy a hdd to another system via 14.4 dial up. __________________ I'll make ya famous!

12-04-2004, 08:49 AM	#19 (permalink)
asshopo Insane Location: Michigan	Our firewall Linux Bridge+IPTables at our NOC: 12:50:04 up 158 days, 10:39, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

12-06-2004, 07:21 AM	#23 (permalink)
bendsley Professional Loafer Location: texas	My spam proxy where I work. spam:~# uptime 09:15:01 up 58 days, 12:12, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.01 Running Debian unstable. 2.4 kernel, Dell PowerEdge 1.3Ghz, 1gig ram, 2x36gig hdd __________________ "You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, "Who's that?" St. Peter says, "Oh, that's God. Thinks he's Denny Crane."

12-04-2004, 11:11 AM	#21 (permalink)
skaven Insane Location: Austin, TX	My fileserver has a pretty decent uptime ever since I put it on UPS power: [skaven@geofront:~]$ uptime 13:08:11 up 75 days, 11:19, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.00 Specs: Abit KT7A, T-bred @ 1466Mhz 1G PC133 OS: Slackware 9.1 5x 160G Seagate Barracuda hard drives (4=RAID5, 1=System) My RAID volume is already almost full, so I'll probably be adding another 8 160G disks in the near future (12x160Gb=1.7Tb + 160Gb parity) Gotta say that these seagate drives kick ass as far as reliability goes.

12-06-2004, 06:27 AM	#22 (permalink)
Pragma I am Winter Born Location: Alexandria, VA	WindowsXP machine (my desktop) - I had an uptime of 32 days last month before I decided to reboot, because it was getting slightly unstable. As for my servers: 9:23AM up 173 days, 18:26, 1 user, load averages: 0.38, 0.16, 0.10 And the others got hit by a power outage recently.

12-06-2004, 07:25 AM	#24 (permalink)
Redjake I'm a family man - I run a family business. Location: Wilson, NC	There's no telling what my uptime record is simply for my PC, but I can definitely tell you what it is for AOL Instant Messenger: 15 Days 12 Hours Almost beat my friends record. So close. She beat me with 16 days on a Hewlett Packard. 15 Days uptime on AIM is a feat, especially if your on-campus internet is unstable. I realized later that I had installed numerous programs (battlefield: vietnam, desert combat patch, FTP programs, office 2003, etc.) without restarting my computer during that time (the AIM record) so I think I technically won. My computer was getting bogged down at the end due to no restarts and mass program installation and AIM eventually froze. My friend's Hewlett Packard is a browser machine and that's pretty much it. I declare an unofficial victory __________________ Off the record, on the q.t., and very hush-hush.

12-07-2004, 04:55 PM	#25 (permalink)
zxello Addict Location: P-Town, WA	my windows gaming machine running windows xp pro, amd athlon xp 3200, geforce fx 5950, was up and running for over a month once, and still able to play games really well on it =) __________________ Old signature just wasn't doing it for me anymore, so now I have this new one. It's equally as stupid but at least it looks really long. I'm probably just going to keep typing until I run out of things to babble about and see how many people actually read this. I once ran down a hill, fell down and hurt my elbow; my mom said I would be ok, she kissed it and made it all better. I've run out of things to say now, so if you have read this whole thing, congratulations you get a gold star!

12-08-2004, 02:51 AM	#27 (permalink)
txd Addict	I'm more concerned with making sure patches are applied. While you can get away without rebooting on some, you just cant avoid it with kernel related ones. Having said that I discovered a WinNT box on a customers network with an uptime of 476 days.

12-08-2004, 03:33 AM	#28 (permalink)
The_Dude The GrandDaddy of them all! Location: Austin, TX	mine's like 2days (i shut down at nite cuz of the lights lol) __________________ "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Darrel K Royal

12-08-2004, 08:25 AM	#29 (permalink)
bendsley Professional Loafer Location: texas	My network monitoring server: janus:~# uptime 10:28:31 up 50 days, 2:59, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.44, 0.45 __________________ "You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, "Who's that?" St. Peter says, "Oh, that's God. Thinks he's Denny Crane."