What's your uptime?
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BliarOut said:
Used to be measured in years back when I maintained Novell boxes 
Remember a story from an old Novell friend called into a company to help - couldn't find one of the servers anywhere - no-one could help - took him several hours and a thorough search of several rooms to find the offending item happily chugging away unmolested behind a desk. Reckoned it had been untouched for at least three, maybe five years.
Leithen said:
BliarOut said:
Used to be measured in years back when I maintained Novell boxes
Remember a story from an old Novell friend called into a company to help - couldn't find one of the servers anywhere - no-one could help - took him several hours and a thorough search of several rooms to find the offending item happily chugging away unmolested behind a desk. Reckoned it had been untouched for at least three, maybe five years.
There are tales (maybe urban myths) of Novell servers getting bricked up/lost as they so rarely needed touching
Bloody shame about the marketing I'd love to be selling Novell still.
hit 997 days on my current box, but, ironically, the uptime script i was running for TuxTime (an online uptime ranking site where I was #2!!) messed up when the tuxtime site died, opened too many instances of itself and resulted in 'too many open files' and as I couldnt log in to kill them, I had to take the decision to reboot the box 
BliarOut said:
Used to be measured in years back when I maintained Novell boxes
We've still got 2 Novell 4.something boxes on the books! Sadly both are getting ropeily old & full now and need kicking every few months for indeterminate reasons
They'l probably be replaced this year with reboot-tastic windows boxes 
Can't compete with the big numbers:
mark@dangermouse:~$ uptime
15:45:23 up 55 days, 23:21, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.0
Best that machine managed was about 670 days, but a power dip thwarted me making it to 2 years. It's an old Dell Optiplex with a 133MHz Pentium, 32MB RAM and 500MB hard disk that runs qmail and sshd on debian potato.
I never reboot it, but South West power distribution do occasionally
. No UPS, it's in my study and acts as my primary MX (to recieve viagra adverts and messages about bulk buys of jacks at the moment) so is hardly important enough to warrant an uninterrupted supply.
mark@dangermouse:~$ uptime
15:45:23 up 55 days, 23:21, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.0
Best that machine managed was about 670 days, but a power dip thwarted me making it to 2 years. It's an old Dell Optiplex with a 133MHz Pentium, 32MB RAM and 500MB hard disk that runs qmail and sshd on debian potato.
I never reboot it, but South West power distribution do occasionally
. No UPS, it's in my study and acts as my primary MX (to recieve viagra adverts and messages about bulk buys of jacks at the moment) so is hardly important enough to warrant an uninterrupted supply. 
At the other end of the spectrum, I've recently requested we buy licenses to use our HP boxes' on/off-switch-over-IP patheticness. Every machine shall have a desktop. Every application shall pop-up dialogue boxes asking if everything is still OK? If this is a server, I am a potato(e).
Pretty much indefinite; VMware on pooled hardware and storage - backup up by 4 hour response HP carepacks.
We sell this stuff and practice what we preach, I don't think anything has ever gone down. I know our Exchange virtual machine has been on for significantly over a year.
Or is that cheating?
We sell this stuff and practice what we preach, I don't think anything has ever gone down. I know our Exchange virtual machine has been on for significantly over a year.
Or is that cheating?
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