Wow, amazing a little box like that can handle such a load. Well, such a load of tasks, not sure what load it was getting. The longest I've been around in person is about 4 years up. Novell box running as a server in a hospital I was at. I know the IT manager and he was telling me about it. The longest I've heard of for Linux is in the years. Loads don't seem tomatter, as I've pushed boxes hard for months and I've yet to ever have a problem. To the people who think uptime doesn't really matter, tommorrow while you're at work, pull the plug on the file server. I'm not even an admin. I'm a college student and even I know uptime DOES in fact matter. The only people who tell you it doesn't either don't know how to keep it up or have no idea what a job in the computer industry is like. Or they are the Janitor. One of the two. uptime is good, downtime costs money. On Sunday 05 September 2004 01:23, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 05 September 2004 07:14, 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.
I have seen the maximum possible uptime you can get on a 32 bit linux machine, 497 days. It was a P2 machine with 128MB internal memory, serving as a file server, dhcp server, web server, cvs server and small scale database server (sybase). It ran SuSE, 7.2 if memory serves.
After the counter reset at 497 days we upgraded it to a newer suse after which it kept on running, what it's doing today I have no idea
My home machines generally have max uptimes of around 3 to 4 months, since I generally update to the latest and greatest, and if there isn't a kernel update in that time, there will be a new suse version :)