6 Jul
2003
6 Jul
'03
10:50 a.m.
A few posts back there was something about a sun box staying up six months?
Humm which release of Solaris was it that 'fixed' a documented 30,000 bugs?
There's a saying about wherever you see one cockroach there is 1000 more
hidden... *grin*
Anyways... that got me thinking so I had to check. I popped into one of our
FreeBSD web servers. It hosts a fair number of high volume sites
(stevewinwood.com, kellerwilliams.net, and some stringcheeseincident support
sites)... the current uptime is.... 5:43PM up 353 days
yeahhhhh baby!
Jay West
6 Jul
6 Jul
11:05 a.m.
New subject: Was: OS uptimes, Now: OT cool guitar players
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Jay West wrote:
FreeBSD web servers. It hosts a fair number of high
volume sites
(stevewinwood.com, kellerwilliams.net,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wow - Keller Williams! Very Cool, I'm a Fan. Got CDs *and* T-shirts...
We now return you to the latest round of Bickering and Billy-Bashing.
Cheers
Funk-de-Funk
11:06 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Jay West once stated:
Anyways... that got me thinking so I had to check. I popped into one of our
FreeBSD web servers. It hosts a fair number of high volume sites
(stevewinwood.com, kellerwilliams.net, and some stringcheeseincident support
sites)... the current uptime is.... 5:43PM up 353 days
I just retired my colocated 486 server (33Mhz, 20M RAM, Linux 2.0.39)
which had a final uptime of 444 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes. It was probably
pumping out 2G of content each month between a dozen sites, and handling
email for half a dozen people.
It was replaced with a more modern system that will allow us to do a bit
more than the 486 could handle (the last two or three months the machine
started crawling, but by then we were running Apache, Seminole (another web
server my friend is writing for the embedded market) and Postfix (which is a
fairly heavy SMTP server, but better than Sendmail)).
I was happy to get over a year uptime on the system (it had been in use
for nearly four years).
-spc (Which reminds me, I need to get it out of the car 8-)
11:16 a.m.
New subject: OT Re: OS uptimes
I just retired my colocated 486 server (33Mhz, 20M
RAM, Linux 2.0.39)
which had a final uptime of 444 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes.
Now I have something to shoot for. You can bet I will be running in circles
anytime I have to do something with that machine to keep from having to
reboot it *GRIN*
Jay West
12:28 p.m.
New subject: OT Re: OS uptimes
nah, when it gets to 600 days, let us know.
I had a sparc 10 which was rebooted when someone hit the
big red button accidently, and then stayed up until the next
time the big red button was hit.
was literally within 1 month of being 2 years uptime, 680ish days
as I recall... Solaris 2.4.
a hundred Sun servers and a thousand disk drives turning off makes
for a really interesting lack of noise....
Kelly
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Subject: OT Re: OS uptimes
I just retired my colocated 486 server (33Mhz, 20M
RAM, Linux 2.0.39)
which had a final uptime of 444 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes.
Now I have something to shoot for. You can bet I will be running in circles
anytime I have to do something with that machine to keep from having to
reboot it *GRIN*
Jay West
12:38 p.m.
New subject: OT Re: OS uptimes
Oh, what the hell.
Just cleaned out a P133 running Novell 3.11. 637 days up. Fileserver for my
business. It hurt to take down and destroy that uptime.
Tarsi
11:09 a.m.
sites)... the current uptime is.... 5:43PM up 353
days
yeahhhhh baby!
Jay West
Yawn.... About the only time an OpenVMS system goes down is for maintenance or a power
outage. There is/was a cluster in England with an uptime of something like 19 years.
Of course this isn't to say that I haven't managed to crash an OpenVMS system,
misconfiguring one, or hardware problems can result in a crash.
Zane
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5:01 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Jay West wrote:
A few posts back there was something about a sun box
staying up six months?
Humm which release of Solaris was it that 'fixed' a documented 30,000 bugs?
There's a saying about wherever you see one cockroach there is 1000 more
hidden... *grin*
Anyways... that got me thinking so I had to check. I popped into one of our
FreeBSD web servers. It hosts a fair number of high volume sites
(stevewinwood.com, kellerwilliams.net, and some stringcheeseincident support
sites)... the current uptime is.... 5:43PM up 353 days
yeahhhhh baby!
% uptime
9:33PM up 418 days, 10:46, 10 users, load averages: 0.58, 0.54, 0.50
It's a NetBSD box I've got co-lo'ed. It would've been more like 565
days, except that the hosting ISP moved their operations across town
in May of 2002.
-brian.
7 Jul
7 Jul
12:45 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Jay West wrote:
Anyways... that got me thinking so I had to check. I
popped into one of our
FreeBSD web servers. It hosts a fair number of high volume sites
(stevewinwood.com, kellerwilliams.net, and some stringcheeseincident support
sites)... the current uptime is.... 5:43PM up 353 days
I can beat that - I've had a Linux box up for about fourteen months, until a
power failure in the datacentre (yes, this is the datacenter that boasts
VESDA, loads of kilowatts of backup generators and ultra-powerful aircon)
reset it back to zero.
Mind you, I've had a NetWare 3.11 server (ob-classic computing!) up for well
over a year, probably about 18 months.
However, this beats all of them:
Uptime is 1048 days, 12 hours, 12 minutes
cat6500-1>
This is a Catalyst 6506 switch at one of my sites which hasn't been down since
its installation back in August 2000! Its the only piece of kit that will,
touch wood, have been in service without any outages for the whole of its
three-year lifecycle.
Peter.
3:03 p.m.
New subject: OT OS uptimes
A lightly loaded Redhat 7.1 Linux box which serves web pages to about four
PC's 24x7 across a WAN.
The uptime actually tripped over due to the IRQ 0 counter overflowing back
to zero so it shows an uptime of 5 days currently. But the real uptime is
shown in the idle time.
Ironically, this machine which is sitting under a reception desk with a
small UPS has better uptime than any in our data center because a rather
large capacitor in the main data center UPS blew spectacularly one day a
year or so ago and someone needlessly hit the big red button.
user : 1d 2:22:06.67 20.2% page in :121287652
nice : 3d 23:59:02.20 73.6% page out:147457401
system: 6d 2:30:33.81 112.4% swap in : 249583
idle : 491d 7:58:47.19 9044.7% swap out: 77284
uptime: 5d 10:22:36.90 context :672899660
irq 0: 46935691 timer irq 6: 342
irq 1: 2654411 keyboard irq 8: 2 rtc
irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 11:1144326397 eth0
irq 3: 3 irq 12: 6 PS/2 Mouse
irq 4: 360577 serial irq 14: 46172874 ide0
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