Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?
Heh. my work server was up for a nice 120 days, then the power supply fan
died, absolutely killed the entire system, fun fun fun. Hopefully, now with
new power supply on board, and some extra fannage, i'll be able to break that
personal record no probs.
Peter.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:08, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> >Just curious how long people have left their system running without
> > reboot.
>
> We had this question recently on my local Danish LUG.
> Many people reported 400+ days uptime.
> Noone reported the uptime interrupted my crashes. Everyone took their
> systems down because of maintenance (like upgrading hardware).
>
> I think the uptime counter counts up to 497 days, and then it starts all
> over again. So currently we would not have any reports positively
> documenting more than 497 days of uptime.
> I read somewhere that the time is counted in "jiffies" where one second is
> 100 "jiffies".
> With a 32 bit unsigned integer to count with that gives 497 days.
> This question comes up quite often. IMO someone interested in measuring
> uptime should beef up the counter with an extra 32 bits so we get a total
> of 64 bits.
> Then we could measure uptime in thousands of billions of years.
> That should be long enough for the next couple of generations. ;o)
>
> Cheers :o)
>
> Johnny :o)
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