Stats: if it had legs, how far could your computer run?

[monsterstack]

Linux users love stats, it seems. Conky set-ups and forum signatures are full of them. Well how about a real test of endurance? How far could your computer run if it had legs? Before it withers, dies, or explodes, that is.


echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '(1k|1024)-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1 miles/'

I get 105.5 miles. Pretty healthy machine, I reckon. How about you?

[itsStephen]

72.4 miles

[-grubby]

My VPS: 51.1 Miles.

[fedanon]

348.7 miles

[Elfy]

whoops - sorry - closed accidentally :(

merged it with the other stats one not noticing that had been closed

[Giant Speck]

46.9 miles.

[3rdalbum]

226.7 miles for my desktop.

304.2 miles for my mini-ITX server.

It's nice to know that my server will still be running long after my desktop is scrap... ...but I don't know how this result came up. My desktop beats my server soundly in most of those tests (memory, CPU speed, number of storage devices attached), and my server wins only in free disk space and uptime.

[Moustacha]

420.3 miles
Am I doing too well? :confused::P

[eragon100]

339.0 miles :KS

[frup]

78.1 miles

so the better your uptime and CPU etc, the longer it can run? Wouldn't the longer it's been running mean it's more tired? :P

[Eisenwinter]

157.2 miles.

uptime is about an hour, CPU is AMD Athlon 3800+ 64bit, 2.4ghz, 1gb of RAM

[bubba_169]

254.7 miles :D

Uptime 30mins, AMD turion 2x2ghz, 3gb RAM

[jelle_]

strange, my computer comes further each time i run the command. started at 60.3 miles, currently 61.2

[ZarathustraDK]

?

I get 836.5 miles, isn't that ridiculously high?

Athlon 4850e 64 X2
Asus M3N78 Pro Mobo
4 gigs of 800 MHz ram

It's by no means a performance-monster, it's pretty "green".

Then again, runners who conserve energy are the good runners...

[Rackstar]

Only 86.4 miles, but I did reboot an hour ago ;)

[eragon100]

uptime 3 hours 34 minutes, now it's 357.8 miles :lolflag:

[ZarathustraDK]

What exactly does the script do?

[toejamfootball]

279.9 miles. Not bad for an 8 year old machine! :)

[MadCow108]

What exactly does the script do?

It adds a few computerstats up:
uptime(uptime)+cpu clock(cat /proc/cpuinfo)+memory(free)+diskspace(df)
the rest is just formating which ends in this:
1799.768/30 +
784460/1024/3+
9084.23/15+70
this is then added with bc and given the arbitrary unit miles :)

my old pc goes 99.4 miles :)

[hyperdude111]

259.0 miles

AMD athlon 64x2 2gb; ddr2 sdram; 149gb free hd space.

uptime 20:37, 4 users, load average: 1.50, 1.66, 1.53

[Hells_Dark]

78.1 miles

so the better your uptime and CPU etc, the longer it can run? Wouldn't the longer it's been running mean it's more tired? :P

No, it runs linux ;)

302.8 miles

[toejamfootball]

282.4 miles

Shouldn't this number drop with uptime?

[RATM_Owns]

┌─[andy @ vithon]-[10:06:47]
└─[~]-[$]> echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '(1k|1024)-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1 miles/'
zsh: correct 'bc' to 'bcp' [nyae]? n
145.3 miles
I gotta whip my computer into shape.


zsh: command not found: whip
Damn.

[hyperdude111]

this 12 hours of uptime 250 miles after re-boot 238

[dragos240]

127.6 miles :)

[happysmileman]

105.6 miles with 20 minutes uptime.

[calvinps]

87.7 miles

[Dr Small]

Oh my gosh, that is a cool command. Need to save it as a shell script and decrypt it, lol :)
79.9 miles

[FuturePilot]

This doesn't seem to like Zsh

sed: -e expression #1, char 27: unknown option to `s'

Works fine with Bash :???:

I got 200.0 miles

[bobbocanfly]

Desktop: 83.8 miles
File server (read: old laptop): 319.9 miles

[aktiwers]

618.8 miles

[ashmew2]

208.0 Miles

Nice Script Idea :lolflag:

[scratman]

384.8 miles, is that good or bad? If it did that in a straight line, it would probably have drowned by now!!

[mohitchawla]

*BEEP* this is *BEEP* unbelievable. 23.4 miles only ? On my OLPC clone. Its probably because the battery's almost depleted ( 9% ). But if not, then the darn script is wrong cuz believe me this thing runs and runs well ! :P

[budluva04]

billybigrigger@alixandria:/var/log$ echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '(1k|1024)-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1 miles/'
402.2 miles

[5carby]

202.6 miles. :)

[The Real Dave]

120.5 miles

This looks really interesting. Can someone explain to me how this script works? =]

[alexandari]

120.9 miles. If it had windows I`d prolly get the BSOD while running and just die. That`s about 1 mile max

[SunnyRabbiera]

77.0 miles...
Not too shabby.

[days_of_ruin]

79.0 miles

Can't wait till I get my new hardware and see how many miles it gets:D

But how is this number calculated? CPU clock speed and RAM size?

[Neheb]

only 62.0 miles :(

[chucky chuckaluck]

i wonder how far it could get on a 'broken pipe'.

[the8thstar]

48.2 miles.

I turned it on 45 minutes ago.

[starcannon]

129.3 miles

Or to the end of its power cord, which is about 3ft long.

[monsterstack]

78.1 miles

so the better your uptime and CPU etc, the longer it can run? Wouldn't the longer it's been running mean it's more tired? :P

Certainly not! An extra long uptime means your computer is nice and healthy. Regular reboots throw that idea into doubt.

To zsh users experiencing problems: that's odd; I use Zsh too and it works fine for me.

[starcannon]

Certainly not! An extra long uptime means your computer is nice and healthy. Regular reboots throw that idea into doubt.

To zsh users experiencing problems: that's odd; I use Zsh too and it works fine for me.

A long uptime may mean a computer has not been rebooted after a kernel update as well ;)
Or it could mean that the computer is a Desktop; a Laptop or Netbook will be shutdown to save battery if the user is on the go and knows the computer won't be needed for several hours; it may also mean that someone prefers to shut the computer down every night in order to save power. I don't make any assumptions about a personal computer's health in regards to uptime; a server on the other hand...

[Rainstride]

51.1 miles

[pbpersson]

My uptime is 29 days, 13 hours and my result is:

489.2 miles :)

[lzfy]

59,7 miles. Acer Aspire One netbook :)

[abn91c]

42.2 miles

[monsterstack]

A long uptime may mean a computer has not been rebooted after a kernel update as well ;).

Are you sure (http://www.ksplice.com/)? [ksplice.com]

Seriously, though, I have heard reports of server guys refusing to do important system upgrades simply because it'd ruin their uptime stats.

[tom66]

126.6 miles.

[starcannon]

Are you sure (http://www.ksplice.com/)? [ksplice.com]

Seriously, though, I have heard reports of server guys refusing to do important system upgrades simply because it'd ruin their uptime stats.

Most of the time I'm sure, I don't think most people mind rebooting after a kernel update, but, its possible that I'm blind on this one.

[perlluver]

83.6 miles, I guess I better get a new computer soon, or is this in the realm of ok?

Heh, my server should die any day now. 32.9 miles.

[Sashin]

409.5 miles

[days_of_ruin]

A long uptime may mean a computer has not been rebooted after a kernel update as well ;)
Or it could mean that the computer is a Desktop; a Laptop or Netbook will be shutdown to save battery if the user is on the go and knows the computer won't be needed for several hours; it may also mean that someone prefers to shut the computer down every night in order to save power. I don't make any assumptions about a personal computer's health in regards to uptime; a server on the other hand...

+1. Why waste power by leaving your computer on overnight?

[starchaser1]

At 27.7 miles it's still a lot further than its owner.

[Bölvaður]

200.5 miles

[bandgeek]

85.5 miles

[izizzle]

96.3 miles.

[Redache]

158.9 Miles.

Not Bad, It could nearly run home from University.

[Phil Urich]

On my Aspire One with Jaunty installed and 40% battery left, I get

161.4 miles

On my main desktop, with an Athlon 4400+ (Socket 939) and 4GB RAM I get the following:

648.0 miles
but to be fair my uptime is 109 days, heh (since I don't forsee having to do any reboot-requiring hardware upgrades, I'm tempted to ride it out until the next LTS! ...but I bet there's been some important security updates that I should actually use, since there's definitely that little icon in the corner bugging me to reboot).

Also, to test what the memory load does to this I just killed Kontact (which was using tons of RAM)...and it dropped down to 637.6 miles.

[PurposeOfReason]

352 miles with an uptime of just one day.

My server gets 534.5 miles, up for 15 days.

[Barrucadu]

285.3 miles

Up for 29 minutes.

[sim-value]

Uptime 32 Mins :
61.1 miles

[koleoptero]

158.9 Miles.

Not Bad, It could nearly run home from University.

Exactly the same here. :-|

[sim-value]

Uptime 32 Mins :
61.1 miles

Uptime : 1:20
222.4 miles

[Paqman]

483.4 miles with an uptime of 2:33

I don't pretend to understand all of what this command is doing, can someone break it down?

[dragos240]

69.7 Miles ^.^

[JillSwift]

Desktop: 144.0 miles (13d 22h)
Server: 119.1 miles (15d 16h)
Me: 1.0 miles (0d 3h)
My neighbor: 5.0 miles (0d 2h)

[spupy]

Laptop (13 days): 97.8
Server (190 days): 144.1
Weird. There is such a huge difference in processing power, uptime and other stats, yet the miles are so close.

[Eviltechie]

203.5 miles

[Bucky Ball]

?

I get 836.5 miles, isn't that ridiculously high?

Athlon 4850e 64 X2
Asus M3N78 Pro Mobo
4 gigs of 800 MHz ram

It's by no means a performance-monster, it's pretty "green".

Then again, runners who conserve energy are the good runners...

You might be interested in the link in my signature. :)

... and: I got 66.3 then 66.6 then ... no, still 66.6.

[t0p]

About 5 meters. Then its power plug would be pulled from the wall and the poor thing would die...

EDIT: Okay, according to that calculation woojimaflip, 28 miles. But that uptime thing skews the result in a meaningless way.

[spcwingo]

59.2

[philcamlin]

74.0 miles

wtf lol my pc failed

[Stelaninja]

It wouldn't run at all.. It's Linux, so it takes the car to where it wants to go..

[starcraft.man]

:~$ echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '(1k|1024)-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1 miles/'
753.8 miles

Man, mine's a marathon runner. I bet if I leave it up a week or so it'll really get up there.

[magmon]

76.6 miles. It seems to go up if I have more programs open, lol.

[blueshiftoverwatch]

41.8 miles

[this is new york not l.a.]

I remember a while back there was a code that told you how far your computer would be able to run if it had legs. Sadly I cannot find it. Does anybody know what that code was? Thanks.

[judge jankum]

hell mine wont even stand up

[lisati]

Can't help with the question, but I'm reminded of a dialog along the following lines:

A hollow voice says 'plugh'

plugh

nothing happens

xyzzy

nothing happens

[Kai69]

How long is your extension cord :lolflag:

[Roasted]

How long is your extension cord :lolflag:

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa I see what you did there!

[Kai69]

OK I have legs and can run all I need now is your address \\:D/

[judge jankum]

How long is your extension cord :lolflag:
HELP!!!! Mine's fallen and can't get up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mechro]

http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7249682&postcount=1

...88.7 miles

[00ber n00b]

168.5

[mobilediesel]

http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7249682&postcount=1

...88.7 miles

Damn. 34.0 miles.

[cariboo]

On the system I'm using right now:

137.2 miles

I just rebooted an hour ago due to a new kernel.

On my server:

528.2 miles

Last reboot was about 2 weeks ago.

[00ber n00b]

why is mine so high? I don't get it...

[gspat]

whoo hoo!!!



glen@glen-desktop:~/Downloads/QuantZ$ echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '(1k|1024)-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1 miles/'
312.6 miles
glen@glen-desktop:~/Downloads/QuantZ$


now if it could just run wine... anything properly would be nice.

[cascade9]

Hers the code for anybody to lazy to follow the the link mechro posted-


echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '(1k|1024)-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1 miles/'286.1 miles.

I'm going to have to read that code and figure out just what its doing :S

[mechro]

I'm going to have to read that code and figure out just what its doing :S

... in training for the Olympics?

[blueshiftoverwatch]

570.2 miles

[Hman242]

123.5 miles.

[HappinessNow]

http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7249682&postcount=1

...88.7 miles

That is cool!


Linux users love stats, it seems. Conky set-ups and forum signatures are full of them. Well how about a real test of endurance? How far could your computer run if it had legs? Before it withers, dies, or explodes, that is.


echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '(1k|1024)-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1 miles/'

I get 105.5 miles. Pretty healthy machine, I reckon. How about you?

[Eisenwinter]

171.3 miles for me.

I'm quite happy about that, considering this machine is 5 years old.

:P

[dmillerw]

111.4 miles, not bad...I think.

[standingwave]

555.1 miles

So what does this mean?

[Rhubarb]

403.78441 km :P

[Ginsu543]

660.1 miles. Is it better to be higher or lower?

[Paddy Landau]

Can't help with the question, but I'm reminded of a dialog along the following lines:
...
plugh
...
xyzzy
...
Adventure!
Get it from the repositories by installing bsdgames (apt:bsdgames).

[RabbitWho]

171.3 miles for me.

I'm quite happy about that, considering this machine is 5 years old.

:P


99.4 miles... six months old.. but i have more ram than I know what to do with.

[dmizer]

Interesting.

1254.2 miles

[sailorboy]

So I got a 6yo dell- it shows 102.3 mikes- use compiz, just set up cairo. It's pretty cool- no opengl though.

[Kai69]

Dell XPS M1330 2007 model

109.7miles

114.2 miles
121.5 miles
123.6 miles

[soni1770]

108.7miles:p

[dragos240]

159.2 miles

[ChadMMc]

140.80miles for me. (old pentium 4 system) 8)

[hard_i]

311.4 miles

[fromthehill]

laptop: c2d 2GHz, 3GB ram, uptime less than 1 day. 166,2 miles
cheap server thingy: celeron 230 900MHz, 2GB ram, uptime 163 days. 237 miles

[LightB]

Around the world and even on water, it's so fast!

[Kai69]

Tried kicking it, it still wont move ):P

[Roasted]

387.0

[Kai69]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9NNCHFEX7g This one talks as well :lolflag:

[markp1989]

http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7249682&postcount=1

...88.7 miles

my torrentslave gets 522.4 miles (cpu underclocked gona have a go at stock speeds). gona give this a go on my desktop and see what its gets :D

edit: just reboted my ts at stock cpu speeds, and mounted my 2nd drive: 815.5 miles

this one usualy has good uptime (it did till we had a power cut on monday :@ i really need a ups) so im expecting it to climb alot :D



my desktop gets 49.6 miles :S i was hoping for more then that as it is more powerfull then my desktop, but because its only got a 30gb ssd, the rest is mounted over nfs, which doesnt count in this list, so it thinks i only have a 30gb hdd lol

but i has only just been turned on, so the uptime part of the calculation will bring me down

my eeepc (900 12gb) which has just been turned on get 20.8 miles (even though its travled more then the other pcs combined lol )

[markp1989]

sory for waking a dead thread, just like the idea of this :D


my torrentslave gets 522.4 miles (cpu underclocked gona have a go at stock speeds). gona give this a go on my desktop and see what its gets

edit: just reboted my ts at stock cpu speeds, and mounted my 2nd drive: 816.3 miles

this one usualy has good uptime (it did till we had a power cut on monday :@ i really need a ups) so im expecting it to climb alot



my desktop gets 49.6 miles :S i was hoping for more then that as it is more powerfull then my desktop, but because its only got a 30gb ssd, the rest is mounted over nfs, which doesnt count in this list, so it thinks i only have a 30gb hdd lol

but i has only just been turned on, so the uptime part of the calculation will bring me down

my eeepc (900 12gb) which has just been turned on get 20.8 miles (even though its travled more then the other pcs combined lol )

[BlueWolf_]

Got 414.9 miles on my desktop. Got high expectations for my server, which had an uptime of 30 days. On my virtual (in wmware) server, I got 27.0 miles instead 8-[
On the host I actually got 207.6 miles. So if you would combine them, they can run 234.6 miles if they would work together. Still less than my desktop :p

[skymera]

424.7miles

[cariboo]

merged two threads on the same subject.

[Psumi]

31.2 miles

Nice going, IBM T41 ;)

[dragos240]

What does the script do exactly, where does it get that number?

[Psumi]

what does the script do exactly, where does it get that number?


it adds a few computerstats up:
Uptime(uptime)+cpu clock(cat /proc/cpuinfo)+memory(free)+diskspace(df)
the rest is just formating which ends in this:
1799.768/30 +
784460/1024/3+
9084.23/15+70
this is then added with bc and given the arbitrary unit miles :)

my old pc goes 99.4 miles :)

bam!

[ikt]

601.5 miles

[SlickRick]

i got 105.5 but seems to change each time I run it.

anyone been able to put this in conkyrc to get conky to show your mileage? I'm must be doing something wrong.