Uptime

dawballz · 21-05-2005 4:21pm #1

Well whether it's good or bad for your computer isn't the issue.

What is the longest time you've had your computer switched on for?

Uptime: 18 Days and some hours.
Machine: Acer Ferrari 3400 Laptop

Lump · 21-05-2005 4:58pm

3 months... odd

Celeron 333Mhz

John

Ciaran500 · 21-05-2005 5:03pm

2days

astec123 · 21-05-2005 5:07pm

About 9hours. I like to turn my machine off and give it a rest.

snappieT · 21-05-2005 5:09pm

Coming up on 11 months now.

A P1 133MHz with a gig of Ram. In the attic, so no fan needed, wireless card, and VNC in.

Lump · 21-05-2005 5:29pm

What OS is it running?

John

snappieT · 21-05-2005 11:54pm

Fedora Core 3 of course.

Windows for 11 months? Are you mad!

halenger · 22-05-2005 12:17am

Win 2K: ~15 days before the network falls over on itself and takes every network app with it. I've since realised that turning off the networking and turning it on again will save it, but a reboot is far quicker...

Debian sarge:
phoenix:~# uptime
13:12:55 up 109 days, 15:48, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Rebooted to add TV Card and more RAM. That was also interrupted by 3 or 4 power cuts that we've had in recent months. Aside from that it's only ever been rebooted if I moved it to a new location or had tinkered with a new kernal.
Currently up 11 days (Another stupid power cut).

rsynnott · 22-05-2005 12:54am

Believe it or not, a Windows machine once stayed up for around 900 days! http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.baltimore.com

You'll never see a Linux machine claiming to have been up for more than 469 days or something, cause the counter loops round to zero. The longest continually running computer is probably the one on Voyager

irishgeo · 22-05-2005 1:17am

rsynnott wrote:

The longest continually running computer is probably the one on Voyager

They dont build them like they used to!

And i can safely assume Microsoft had yet to emerge from Bill Gates garage.

rsynnott · 22-05-2005 1:35am

irishgeo wrote:

They dont build them like they used to!

And i can safely assume Microsoft had yet to emerge from Bill Gates garage.

Yep: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/

dawballz · 22-05-2005 2:45am

snappieT wrote:

Fedora Core 3 of course.

Windows for 11 months? Are you mad!

I didn't even know FC3 was out that long..

Cabaal · 22-05-2005 3:29am

1Ghz Machine 512MB Ram, bout 500GB running XP
I've managed 54 days

I really gota sort the cooling as it always manages to overheat and lock up

snappieT · 22-05-2005 1:19pm

Dublin Airport runs XP. They have to reboot every morning (around 3AM). Once they forgot. Kudos to whoever figures out what happened.

Nothing was allowed to do anything in the sky for the 10 minutes it took to reboot.

Lump · 22-05-2005 1:44pm

It really depends what the OS is doing.... Running an airport can't be that easy. I've had Win 2000 up for 3 months on the 333.

I've also had 98 up for about 2 months on the same computer.

John

Capt'n Midnight · 22-05-2005 2:01pm

snappieT wrote:

Dublin Airport runs XP. They have to reboot every morning (around 3AM). Once they forgot. Kudos to whoever figures out what happened.

Nothing was allowed to do anything in the sky for the 10 minutes it took to reboot.

IIRC plan D is to use handheld walkie talkies to get the planes down - but that's long after all the Plan B's have failed.

I'd an NT4 server up for ~183 days and it had WINS / DNS / BDC / DHCP / File / Print AND exchange running on it..

some stuff to look for
Novell servers
- being lost / bricked up because people forgot where they were - bonus if you find the one that they moved office and didn't turn the server off - they had it running off a UPS while they moved.
(was on a course give by a guy that had to track his novell server by following the network cable in the house next door that he was using an office - turned out it was behing a filing cabinet)
VMS
- uptimes longer than microsoft support policies

NT TS 4 - the manual recomends a reboot every 24 hours to free memory leaks

JohnnyMobile · 23-05-2005 5:32pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

- uptimes longer than microsoft support policies

Mandrake 10.1
6:20pm up 103 days, 21:24, 5 users, load average: 0.26, 0.34, 0.39

bennyx_o · 23-05-2005 5:57pm

Mines been on 5 weeks 4 days 15 hours 42 minutes. Longest this pcs been on is 8 weeks 3 days 6hours 34 minutes running WinXP.

byte · 23-05-2005 8:53pm

(record) 3w 2h 50m 19s (set on 15.04.2005 19:24 using WinXP)

The longest uptime without BSoD. XP Pro SP2.

When I had Win2k, the longest uptime was about 4 weeks, where a powercut put a stop to it! Damn 2k was stable (for Windows)! W98SE never stayed up long enough for me to care or take notice

Capt'n Midnight · 23-05-2005 9:22pm

Somewhere out there is a PDP-11 that they've forgotten to switch off..

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/103.html
The grand prize, a Palm Pilot, has been awarded to Bart Burkhardt, who has not had to worry about his box for over 2331 days.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=855602
=> cluster uptime:
8 years 0 days 0 hrs 0 min 1.05 sec

JohnnyMobile · 24-05-2005 11:56am

this has been up for longer!
http://www.eropuitinlimburg.com/pc/afbeeldingen/Difference%20engine%20van%20Charles%20Babbage.jpg

astrofool · 24-05-2005 1:22pm

windows 3.1 for 2years+ in the lab here. Only turned off when changing building.

Peteee · 24-05-2005 3:33pm

Longest uptime was about 16 days on my winxp work machine.

Maybe 4 or 5 days on my home machine, when i was downloading some stuff and didnt turn it off at night.

Sparky · 24-05-2005 5:42pm

the computer in the attic running win xp pro thats running 6000 songs of music on random to speakers in the house has been running since jan of last year it does a ram defragg every 10hrs so that Ram stays ok and to be safe there is a huge 12" fan blowing right into the case.
All we do is turn off the speakers
TBH, my whole intension was to see how long the computer lasts and i cant believe its still active.

L1011 · 24-05-2005 5:46pm

200+ days on my server... which is in dire need of security patching by this stage.

Cabaal · 24-05-2005 6:27pm

MYOB wrote:

200+ days on my server... which is in dire need of security patching by this stage.

Your in even more trouble if thats a Windows machine

L1011 · 24-05-2005 6:33pm

Cabaal wrote:

Your in even more trouble if thats a Windows machine

SuSE Linux Enterprise 8.1. So, no.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-05-2005 10:13pm

astrofool wrote:

windows 3.1 for 2years+ in the lab here. Only turned off when changing building.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/archive/index.php/t-17830.html

Oh and don't diss win3.1
Any OS you can re-install in 1 minute from CD has to be good...

LOL
IIRC If you've more than 64MB ram then the only way to use the extra ram is to put the pagefile on a ramdrive.

Kali · 25-05-2005 9:06am

85 days on several linux boxes in here, which is basically since we moved office, one w2k server is on 85 as well but most I routinely patch and reboot on a weekly basis.

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