Whats your longest uptime?

[geekyhawkes]

I am just wondering what the longest uptime anyone has managed with mybuntu before having to reboot.

I would be interested if there is a difference between combined front/back end machines and the dedicated back end.

I am guessing the need to reboot a machine every once in a while is a windows thing (damn MS) but would still be interested to see what people have managed with mythbuntu.

Thanks

EDIT: It would also be nice if you could include the reason for restarting so we could see if there is a trend.

[mathog]

I am just wondering what the longest uptime anyone has managed with mybuntu before having to reboot.


Mine runs as a dedicated DVR, so it is supposed to shut itself off when not in use. Of course it wakes itself back up again when a program needs to be recorded. The period it goes without crashing the OS or needing a hardware reset is the effective "DVR uptime" for such a system, although that is not at all the same thing as the traditional uptime measurement. I have yet to see the OS crash, that isn't an issue at all. However, the Mythtv frontend does lock up on occasion, so I have a special key on the remote to kill it and restart just the frontend. If you don't call restarting the frontend a crash, then the "DVR uptime" for my system is now several weeks and growing. This dates back to the implementation of the key to restart the frontend, before that I had to do a hard reset to regain control of the system.

[newlinux]

I don't run mythbuntu proper (I've run myth installed on ubuntu since 6.10). But I have achieved uptimes well past 200 days on a couple different servers. All of my backends are also frontends. My two frontends that aren't backends are laptops, and thus go down all the time. The reasons for downtime are usually my desire to upgrade or modify hardware. I have my backends connected to UPS machines. I have a standalone system in the garage (not connected to a UPS), and it has overheated and shutdown over the summer.

Basically, almost all downtime for me is user initiated. the last major downtime for most of my machines was about a month ago, when my wife plugged a vacuum cleaner into my UPS and fried it. Had to reboot (or rather boot) a few computers then.