Hi!

I know uptime shouldn't be the reason patches are

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anyway, whats the best youv had? Or seen at a place of work?

The longest uptime I've seen was with an OS/2-Server. We had to upgrade it and noticed it running with OS/2 2.0 -- us expecting OS/2 Warp 3.0. This was running for seven years without being rebooted! While testing if we could even boot this machine after powering off, we found the FD inoperable: too much dust inside. All harddrives where seven years old too. But nothing broken! After cleaning the whole thing. We could install the new OS/2 Warp 4 --- but the fantastic uptime was gone. ;-( The longest uptime with Linux (SuSE 7.3) had my domino server: a few more than 400 days before upgrading to SuSE 9.0. For FreeBSD I have a test system running for about two years now. But uptime does not tell about how long systems weren't powered off. Looking at power on state, I have systems running for more than 8 years now (kerberos server -- Pentium 60, 32 MByte RAM, 2,1 GByte HD). Various upgrades in between. OS- Uptime is often not more than 200 days... -- Thomas