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Re: [SLE] Uptimes
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:35:40 -0700
- Message-id: <200409042235.40484.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
Allen,
On Saturday 04 September 2004 22:14, Allen wrote:
> Probably has been asked before, but I'm just curiouse about some of the
> best uptimes you have seen, what kind of box it was, what OS, details
> about the OS, and what the box was doing.
>
> Is it still up? If not, did it make you want to cry, like when my box
> needed a reboot after a Kernel Update?
Having to reboot is not way up on my list of crying offenses...
> If the OS was not SUSE Linux, what are the best uptimes you have seen
> for SUSE Linux? What are the best you've seen on Linux at all?
>
> For me, my best uptime was SUSE 8.2 Professional, and it was 66 days.
Someone over on <URL: news:alt.os.linux.suse> was just claiming a 300+ day
uptime.
> Before you laugh, think how I have only had a computer for a total of 4
> years, and how I'm using regular PCs, not server hardware, and not only
> that, I'm not very good with hardware, so these are machines bought
> from best buy, with not enough fans and cooling for my taste, and so I
> worry about overheating.
I just lost a CPU to my negligence in cleaning the dust from the heat-sink
fins. For the replacement CPU (one of the ones that require that special
cooling standard Intel specifies with the external ducting leading to the
CPU fan intake), I added an internal mounting holding to fans to vent air
away from the CPU heat-sink outflow area.
I also bought a multimeter with a temperature monitoring feature and I
check periodically. So far, even now that summer has arrived (hereabouts,
this is the hottest time of the year), the outflow temperature has not
gotten within 3C of maximum _intake_ temperature specified by Intel
(namely, 38C). And I run SETI@home at all times.
Like I said, I keep an eye on it, but judging from what I've seen, I'm not
too worried.
Unfortunately, short of carving up the case or buying a new one, I have no
way of satisfying the ventilation requirement short of leaving the side
panel off of the box.
> If I could I'd use Liquid Nitrogen, trust me, I'm a cooling dude. I
> like a box running icy.
Well, if you're going to overclock significantly, I suppose extreme
measures might be required, but for most of us, I don't think liquid
cooling is necessary for the current generation of CPUs. Maybe someday...
Randall Schulz
On Saturday 04 September 2004 22:14, Allen wrote:
> Probably has been asked before, but I'm just curiouse about some of the
> best uptimes you have seen, what kind of box it was, what OS, details
> about the OS, and what the box was doing.
>
> Is it still up? If not, did it make you want to cry, like when my box
> needed a reboot after a Kernel Update?
Having to reboot is not way up on my list of crying offenses...
> If the OS was not SUSE Linux, what are the best uptimes you have seen
> for SUSE Linux? What are the best you've seen on Linux at all?
>
> For me, my best uptime was SUSE 8.2 Professional, and it was 66 days.
Someone over on <URL: news:alt.os.linux.suse> was just claiming a 300+ day
uptime.
> Before you laugh, think how I have only had a computer for a total of 4
> years, and how I'm using regular PCs, not server hardware, and not only
> that, I'm not very good with hardware, so these are machines bought
> from best buy, with not enough fans and cooling for my taste, and so I
> worry about overheating.
I just lost a CPU to my negligence in cleaning the dust from the heat-sink
fins. For the replacement CPU (one of the ones that require that special
cooling standard Intel specifies with the external ducting leading to the
CPU fan intake), I added an internal mounting holding to fans to vent air
away from the CPU heat-sink outflow area.
I also bought a multimeter with a temperature monitoring feature and I
check periodically. So far, even now that summer has arrived (hereabouts,
this is the hottest time of the year), the outflow temperature has not
gotten within 3C of maximum _intake_ temperature specified by Intel
(namely, 38C). And I run SETI@home at all times.
Like I said, I keep an eye on it, but judging from what I've seen, I'm not
too worried.
Unfortunately, short of carving up the case or buying a new one, I have no
way of satisfying the ventilation requirement short of leaving the side
panel off of the box.
> If I could I'd use Liquid Nitrogen, trust me, I'm a cooling dude. I
> like a box running icy.
Well, if you're going to overclock significantly, I suppose extreme
measures might be required, but for most of us, I don't think liquid
cooling is necessary for the current generation of CPUs. Maybe someday...
Randall Schulz
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