server uptime

[Warren Luebkeman]

I guess a better question at this point is then, how much uptime does it take before a server begins to ask, "What am I?", and wishes to meet its creator....

Thanks for all the discussion about server uptime.  The novelty of having a server with 2 years of uptime is much less significant now, and I think I can bring myself to power it down.  ;-)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Johnson" <dave-gnhlug-list at davej.org>
To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:04:40 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: re:  server uptime

Warren Luebkeman writes:
> I am curious how common it is for peoples servers to go extremely
> long periods of time without crashing/reboot.  Our server, running
> Debian Sarge, which serves our email/web/backups/dns/etc has been
> running 733 days (two years) without a reboot.  Its in an 4U IBM
> chassis with dual power supplies, which was old when we fired it up
> (PIII Server).
> 
> Does anyone have similar uptime on their mission critical servers?
> Whats the longest uptime someone has had with Windows?   

I have a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA that's been accumulating a rather
impressive uptime sitting unused in it's cradle.

Just checked and it's now up to 1594 days, however the openzaurus
kernel it's running has a 32bit jiffies counter so it's wrapped it's
uptime 3 times so far and only shows 103 days, the other 3*497 days
are there but hidden :(

It's survived many power outages by simply auto-suspending itself if
power is lost, just resume back on after the outage and uptime picks up
where it left off.  I think there's probably another month of missed
uptime due to forgetting to resume it after power outages.

If only I could find a more useful purpose for it besides accumulating
uptime. 

-- 
Dave
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