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