Brag on your uptime thread

[lykwydchykyn]

I just noticed yesterday while doing a few rounds of updates that my LTSP server -- a measly Dell GX280 that powers 15 thin clients -- has been up and running without a reboot for 882 days (running dapper), still running just fine.

Anyone have similar uptime success stories?

[Bezmotivnik]

It's good that your working server has great uptime.

It is not good that people who are not using their personal computers are leaving them on.

We've been through this many times here.

[RiceMonster]

My computer's uptime is eternal. It has always been on, and always will be.

My power bill is through the roof.

[coolbrook]

It's good that your working server has great uptime.

It is not good that people who are not using their personal computers are leaving them on.

We've been through this many times here.

Well he did say thin clients and didn't mention their actual energy consumption. My computers run 24/7. The LCD's dont.

[blur xc]

My computer's uptime is eternal. It has always been on, and always will be.

My power bill is through the roof.

Ours is the same way (but our power bill has been strangely low, knock on wood)-

It's due the the manner in which we user our computer. No one in my house, decides to just sit down, spend a couple of hours in front of it, and turn it off again. We have several computer users in the house, and the computer is in a central location in the house (the kitchen, it's a big kitchen, his its own little spot), so at random times throughout the day when someone needs to do a computing task, we just sit down, do it, and move on. It would be a total pita to have to boot it up every time we needed to do something. We almost always have a few open tasks running the whole time too. When we have a minute, we work on it, then when we need to get up, we do, back and forth.

I think the 50" plasma that the kids leave on all the time (they remember to turn the wii off, but leave thee tv on "no input"). I tell them they owe me $5 for each time I have to turn it off after they used it.

BM

[RiceMonster]

I was kidding around. I actually shut down my computer at night.

[lykwydchykyn]

It's good that your working server has great uptime.

It is not good that people who are not using their personal computers are leaving them on.

We've been through this many times here.

So why are you derailing my thread and going through it again?

[KeLa]

I had once IBM desktop with red hat on it and uptime 400+ when one day i started to wonder why i's so slow doing things and rebooted and found out that hard disk has gone to heaven :evil:

[lykwydchykyn]

I had once IBM desktop with red hat on it and uptime 400+ when one day i started to wonder why i's so slow doing things and rebooted and found out that hard disk has gone to heaven :evil:

It's always the HDD, isn't it? The reason this server only has 882 days is that the original HDD died (882 days ago). Of all the parts you DON'T want failing on you...

[Niko Johnson]

Im running a dell power edge with ubuntu and apache... my uptime is 532 days!

[KeLa]

It's always the HDD, isn't it? The reason this server only has 882 days is that the original HDD died (882 days ago). Of all the parts you DON'T want failing on you...

Have you had this in M$ win? Exact moment the hd fails whole system crashes and that's the end of story :)
I have seen that more often that i want. In M$ Win environment only thing that can help you is hardware raid with standby spare hd.

[gletob]

Laptop:

17:06:46 up 11:06, 4 users, load average: 0.29, 0.16, 0.11
Server

17:05:39 up 1 day, 22:15, 1 user, load average: 0.69, 0.37, 0.16


Forgot that power failure


It's good that your working server has great uptime.

It is not good that people who are not using their personal computers are leaving them on.

We've been through this many times here.

It's not good that your all up in other peoples business as to what they do. It's nice that you want to save the environment, and I don't like global warming either, maybe you should go work on clean energy. But I like the convinence of leaving my computer on, and you'll NEVER change me, so deal with it.

[mr-woof]

I've only used Windows Servers, so when it's update time :) You need to reboot most of the time, is it possible to update linux servers without rebooting?

Surely, the ltsp server in the original post must of had some updates in 3 years? :)

[lykwydchykyn]

I've only used Windows Servers, so when it's update time :) You need to reboot most of the time, is it possible to update linux servers without rebooting?

Surely, the ltsp server in the original post must of had some updates in 3 years? :)

You cannot update the kernel (well, you can, but you won't be running it), but most other things do not require a reboot.

In this case, the usage doesn't really demand that I update the kernel.

[gletob]

You cannot update the kernel (well, you can, but you won't be running it), but most other things do not require a reboot.

In this case, the usage doesn't really demand that I update the kernel.

http://www.ksplice.com/

[tjwoosta]

a measly Dell GX280 that powers 15 thin clients -- has been up and running without a reboot for 882 days (running dapper), still running just fine.

Seems kind of strange that you havn't had an update that required a reboot in 2 1/2 years.

[SomeGuyDude]

Seems kind of strange that you havn't had an update that required a reboot in 2 1/2 years.

As long as you never install any updates, you never have to reboot.

[handy]

I have an old PIII running IPCop 24/7. It gets rebooted automatically whenever we have a power outage. That is the only time.

We have solar panels & hot water heating, which helps offset the various costs of running a machine 24/7. I intend to move to a machine that uses less energy when the AMD 2000+ CPUs/motheboards become available.

[edin9]

I turn the PC of when I'm not using it. It's stupid to just leave it on for no reason.

[jpmelos]

Holy ****, my uptime is 4 hours and 3 minutes! Try to beat that now!

[Grifulkin]

My laptops I shut off when I'm not using, but turning off my Desktop? You must be crazy when I wake up I don't want to wait to have it boot I just want to get on check my stuff that start getting ready to go to school forever. Also before I left to go to my girlfriend my uptime was 8 days, I do however shut if off if I leave for the night then I see the point I won't be here, at all.

[dragos240]

5 hrs. 53 minutes. I run it randomly.

[RichardLinx]

richard@richard-laptop:~$ uptime
12:25:00 up 2 days, 27 min, 2 users, load average: 0.95, 0.61, 0.50
Mainly because I download files and listen to music during the night.

[edin9]

Mainly because I download files and listen to music during the night.

Whale song to help you sleep?

[mrf]

[mrf@ferengi ~]# uptime
14:30:33 up 1225 days, 18:22, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.45

It's a Centos machine doing light webserver and mail duties.

EDIT: another:

[mrf@orion ~]# uptime
14:37:18 up 1225 days, 18:44, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.19, 0.11

A DB server. 1225 days ago must have been the last time we moved the office.

[Bungo Pony]

20:30:59 up 2 days, 23:57, 2 users, load average: 1.35, 1.18, 1.09

The only time I reboot is when I have to transfer video onto the hard drive in Windows, which was last weekend.

[ticopelp]

It's good that your working server has great uptime.

It is not good that people who are not using their personal computers are leaving them on.

We've been through this many times here.

Although getting to the finger-wagging lecture by post #2 might be a new record.

[RichardLinx]

Whale song to help you sleep?
Yes. That's exactly it.

[Sporkman]

My Intel Atom raid1 NAS running Ubuntu Server 9.04:

21:03:09 up 29 days, 23:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[3rdalbum]

I had my home server up for over 100 days, and then the flash drive it was running off started going south (went read-only).

The system is now running off a small HDD and I hope I get to 187 days. What happens in 187 days? Ubuntu 10.04 LTS gets released and it's time to upgrade!

[handy]

My Intel Atom raid1 NAS running Ubuntu Server 9.04:

So the data on your NAS system isn't important?

[NovaAesa]

40 days, woo!


ps@pris:~$ uptime
21:55:01 up 40 days, 6:15, 3 users, load average: 0.42, 0.16, 0.11


I'm feeling disappointed that I'm going to upgrade to Karmic when it comes out... I'm pretty sure a fresh install will involve some sort of restart...

[PacSci]

Once my laptop had an uptime of about a month. Then it overheated and the hard drive broke, and since it was the primary IDE controller, my CD drive went out too and I thought my laptop was permanently disabled. Then I bought a new hard drive and it worked. Now I don't leave it on for more than 10 hours at a time, and even that's pushing it.

My server, on the other hand:


snares: ~$ uptime
07:13:05 up 56 days, 13:58, 4 users, load average: 0.32, 0.08, 0.02


Though there's a kernel upgrade waiting to be installed, so that uptime probably won't last much longer. :)

[Sporkman]

My Intel Atom raid1 NAS running Ubuntu Server 9.04:

So the data on your NAS system isn't important?

Curse you, Handy! Curse you!!! :P

[handy]

Curse you, Handy! Curse you!!! :P

I looked so hard into this RAID business when I was creating my FreeNAS box. Initially I thought I'd do a RAID-1 to give me the automatic internal backup on my FreeNAS backup. Then I learned that RAID-1 & some of the other RAIDs too, are the quickest way to duplicate corruption.

So I kind of went off RAID after that.

Anyway, by your subtle response to my previous post I have intuited that you may also be aware of this fact... :)

[Sporkman]

Anyway, by your subtle response to my previous post I have intuited that you may also be aware of this fact... :)

No, I thought you were disparaging Ubuntu Server's security (as I'm the lone Ubuntu Server advocate on this board). ;)

[cartman640]

All of my systems (including my Windows PC) are at this amount of uptime:
02:33:17 up 35 days, 7:51, 1 user, load average: 0.67, 0.77, 0.77

It was 35 days and 7 hours ago that I arrived back in the country from holiday. The least reliable part of my systems is the electricity supply...