Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 18. April 2013 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > > On 2013-04-17 17:22:32 +1030, John Elliot wrote: > > > $ uptime 16:51:12 up 1136 days, 17:01, 1 user, load average: 0.22, > > > 0.12, 0.08 > > > > I got on 2012-11-01: > > > > 10:48:16 up 1150 days, 8:00, 1 user, load average: 0.83, 0.69, 0.31 > > > > But then there was a disk failure and the machine is no longer working. > > Impressive :) > > A machine at work which we forgot about had more than 1200 days. But > had some hardware failure shortly later as well. I think I have the uptime > output somewhere. I no longer have the verbatim uptime output but on a machine that had been mostly abandoned I find an email from me to the tech group that it had been up for 1221 days when I started looking at it. It needed someone to give it some love and attention. But It was still doing BIND9 DNS resolving successfully and I could log in fine. It was running Sarge. I was shocked by how long it had been abandoned. I rebooted it and upgraded it to Lenny and then to Squeeze. The uptime now is only 30 days since I last rebooted it for the recent new kernel upgrade. In that same old email I mentioned a sibling to it that had been up 524 days. I also rebooted and upgraded it. I routinely see VMs that are running over a year between reboots. But I see that as of a sign of abandonment. I don't think uptime challenges are useful. It makes people want to do something that they shouldn't want to do. When kernel security upgrades come along just install them and reboot. Human made "machines" of all types have been running for a very long time and it just isn't productive or useful to try to go for a record. On the humor side though I rememeber a story about a guy who moved his apartment. His machine was on a UPS. He determined a way to borrow a second UPS and daisy chain them for more uptime and then drove like a madman halfway to his new place where he had previously scouted and found a public power outlet. He stopped and charged both UPSes up again. Then drove the rest of the way to his new place. The UPS alarm was sounding the entire way. All of this just so as to preserve his uptime. Bob
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