Mighty quiet in here

[Brad De Vries]

On 11/20/06, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006, Rick Bowers wrote:
> >At 11/19/2006 11:11 PM, you wrote:
> >>On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 22:46 -0500, Rick Bowers wrote:
> >>
> >> > When I moved a while back, it had been running non-stop for 360 days.
> >> > I almost brought the whole system over to the new house running on
> >> > the UPS just so I could pass the 1 year mark :-)
> >> >
> >> > Gotta love linux...
> >>
> >>Yes, you do! That would have been cool... keeping the mainbox running on
> >>the UPS. I've got an old one, that if I don't keep it plugged in for
> >>several days, I have to get the car battery charge out and give it a
> >>shot in the arse. Then it works just fine. Maybe I ought to replace the
> >>battery one of these days. Ric
> >
> >I had the same problem. My server was so old it wouldn't keep the
> >BIOS fresh. But, since I never had to boot it, it really didn't matter.
>
> I have a FreeBSD 4.8 box with uptime at 880 dayes and counting.
> At this point I'm afraid it might not come back up if it requires
> rebooting.  I am in the process of moving everything off this
> machine to a new SLES10 box, but would like to see just how long
> it will keep going.
>
> The last time it was rebooted was when I got a backup generator
> to deal with our frequent power outages.

What amazing timing.  Mine has been running for 440 days.

/home/bjd> uptime
 13:43:20  up 440 days,  4:13,  1 user,  load average: 0.45, 0.33, 0.13
/home/bjd> date
Mon Nov 20 13:43:22 EST 2006

Brad.