What's the longest-running Linux machine you know of?

[K.Mandla]

Probably a stupid question, but it was one that was asked of me. I've heard of people who have Linux boxes running without restart for months at a time. ... Is there a granddaddy machine somewhere at a university or something that hasn't been powered off or rebooted for years and years? :eek:

[Arktis]

There's some kind of website for listing poeple's super long uptimes; someone posted it here a few months back... but I'm too lazy to search right now. :rolleyes:

[Kerberos]

I've got a smoothwall server sitting under my desk that managed just over a year before we had a power cut :)

[majikstreet]

http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=toplist

"1. SO 5y 351d 13h 06m 44s 5y 351d 13h 06m 44s 5y 351d 13h 06m 44s SunOS 5.6"

"5. secretos 3y 125d 14h 21m 28s 3y 125d 14h 21m 28s 3y 125d 14h 21m 28s Linux 2.4.18-17.7...."

[KingBahamut]

Longest my cluster head has been up is about a year....but thats no where close to any of those on the top list.

[halfvolle melk]

After some googling I found this site with some cool stats:
http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/sunrecords.html

Too bad only that stuff like "Furthest a server has been thrown by an admin" is unknown, cause that's the stuff you really want to know ;)

[K.Mandla]

"Longest uptime for a system underwater"?

:D

[followme]

I think there should be different classes of uptime. Ex.: everyday desktop, file servers, firewall box...etc.

Naturally, you would think the everyday desktop workstation would experience more reboots than others.

[John.Michael.Kane]

It would be cool to see if a laptop could be left on with out problems, and have a five year uptime that includes using it on a daily bases too..

[arctic]

I know of a server, running with Slackware and non-stop since over nine years now. Not bad at all. :)

[holzfreiweiss]

What about the shortest uptime Linux machines?? :guitar:

A friend of mine runs his TV Dreambox stuff with linux - that one freezes once in every hour.

[redbikemaster]

Mine right now goes only 5-10 minutes without freezing. It's ugly.