what is your longest "uptime" ? (not for servers)

[MaximB]

if you shutdown your computer every day you probably don't have a hight uptime
but till now, what is your longest uptime ?
(this "competition is NOT opened for servers b/z they almost never got shutdown).

ok... so my current uptime is :

maxim@maxim:~$ uptime
20:02:00 up 8 days, 10:16, 2 users, load average: 1.95, 2.32, 1.98


what is yours ?

(to check your uptime just type "uptime" in the command line).

P.S
if you restart your computer WITHOUT shuttingdown your uptime is reset.

[v8YKxgHe]

usualy it's around the 9 hour range

[kostkon]

My longest uptime was 10 days... :)

[v8YKxgHe]

actually, saying that my longest uptime was around 80 hours when I just left my PC rendering a walkthrough animation of a house in 3D for a college assignment/project. In total it was something like 54 hours of render time for 30 seconds of video!

[MaximB]

AlexC - sorry that I'm off my topic but what programs did you use for your work (I'm a 3d graphics freak).

and can someone tell me what is "load average: 1.95, 2.32, 1.98" in the "uptime" means ?

[jdhore]

my current uptime (my longest so far):

jd@jd-laptop:~$ uptime
13:17:33 up 7 days, 18:50, 2 users, load average: 0.47, 0.56, 0.87

i DO have a personal server in my house (using standard PC hardware, not server hardware) that i use as my FTP/HTTP/IRC/SSH/media server/full-home fileserver that's running FreeBSD 6.0 and the current uptime on that box is 211 days and counting. Also, my MythTV box running KnoppMyth has currently been up for about 120 days.

[jdhore]

AlexC - sorry that I'm off my topic but what programs did you use for your work (I'm a 3d graphics freak).

and can someone tell me what is "load average: 1.95, 2.32, 1.98" in the "uptime" means ?

cpu usage at 1 minute ago, 5 minutes ago and 15 minutes ago

[v8YKxgHe]

AlexC - sorry that I'm off my topic but what programs did you use for your work (I'm a 3d graphics freak).

and can someone tell me what is "load average: 1.95, 2.32, 1.98" in the "uptime" means ?

I normally use 3DS Max which I use on Windows, and have been for around a year now, but I'm currently learning Maya (which I love!) and am using it on Ubuntu :-D It's one of the main reasons I started learning Maya, so I can be free of Windows (though I still use Windows for Photoshop)

[KaroSHiv0n]

click (http://karoshi.endoshi.com/phone/04-02-06_1544.jpg)

that was about 2 weeks before it was rebooted to upgrade :)

[yopnono]

Last time I rebooted was 2weeks ago. Was not needed but I did wanted to try something the required a reboot.

[kuja]

My longest ever was a little over a month. My average is a week or two. My current uptime is really low because I've been doing some major repartitioning.

[MkfIbK7a]

i went to maine for a couple of weeks and left my compy on by accident...

thats around 16 days

[jdhore]

click (http://karoshi.endoshi.com/phone/04-02-06_1544.jpg)

that was about 2 weeks before it was rebooted to upgrade :)

holy crap! what kind of box is that? ...i'm gonna guess a server from the really low load averages and the CLI display

[Mr Wrath]

My highest uptime was 22+ days...would've been longer, but an ice storm took out the power sometime during this weekend. Running Ubuntu 6.06.

[MkfIbK7a]

13:49:23 up 1 day, 6:20, 2 users, load average: 0.85, 0.72, 0.65
this is my current uptime

[Majlo]

mario@notebook:~$ uprecords
# Uptime | System Boot up
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
1 13 days, 22:29:53 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Sat Nov 25 11:13:27 2006
-> 2 10 days, 12:13:28 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Sat Jan 6 07:44:58 2007
3 7 days, 05:25:42 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Sat Dec 23 19:07:58 2006
4 3 days, 14:02:49 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Sun Dec 31 08:12:50 2006
5 2 days, 12:42:14 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Fri Nov 17 19:32:17 2006
6 2 days, 08:52:24 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Sat Dec 9 09:43:39 2006
7 1 day , 08:04:53 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Thu Nov 23 17:35:16 2006
8 1 day , 03:59:00 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Thu Jan 4 18:44:51 2007
9 1 day , 03:34:35 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Wed Nov 22 11:56:40 2006
10 1 day , 02:27:34 | Linux 2.6.17-10-generic Mon Dec 11 18:36:34 2006
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
no1 in 3 days, 10:16:26 | at Sat Jan 20 06:15:03 2007

I`m going to be number one in a 3 days ;-)

[MaximB]

I normally use 3DS Max which I use on Windows, and have been for around a year now, but I'm currently learning Maya (which I love!) and am using it on Ubuntu :-D It's one of the main reasons I started learning Maya, so I can be free of Windows (though I still use Windows for Photoshop)

sorry to be off my topic AGAIN :-# but did you hear about the free open sourced GREAT program blender ? www.blender3d.org
you MUST check it out if you didn't already, and there is a new version coming up in a few weeks.
why use non free when you have all-in-one free 3d modeling, animation and game creation program that runs on Linux perfectly and natively ?

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back on topic.

and I thought my "uptime" was high...
but it's not fair , there is an update once a few months that asks for restart :mad:
that resets the uptime to neo :evil:

[Niko38752]

From what I recall, about 50 days on my old comp (dapper with icewm) and 40 days on my current comp which runs dapper with gnome and ocassionally KDE.

[v8YKxgHe]

sorry to be off my topic AGAIN :-# but did you hear about the free open sourced GREAT program blender ? www.blender3d.org
you MUST check it out if you didn't already, and there is a new version coming up in a few weeks.
why use non free when you have all-in-one free 3d modeling, animation and game creation program that runs on Linux perfectly and natively ?

Yeah I've heard of and tried Blender. It is a good program but there are certain things that annoy me (mostly the interface), plus as a career I'd like to be a Lighting or Modeling Technical director working on feature films and Blender just isn't used at companies that work on feature films. I'd rather be learning the program that is mostly used for the job I want to get into. Blender is a great program, but it's just not for me ;)

Edit: Maya also works perfectly and has a native linux version.

[MaximB]

I'm sorry to hear that AlexC, Blender is a VERY fast program, fast modeler and it's advancing in the fastest speed of them all, even now you have some features not available in the more popular programs, and soon in a few years it WILL be the most advanced program.
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back AGAIN on topic :

I wonder, do any of you have a high uptime with your Windows PC ???
(is it possible without updating and actually using it ?).

[apfsdsdu]

My highest was 138 days on a Gentoo box. Currently 39 days and counting.

[mips]

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

Sorry it's servers...

[KaroSHiv0n]

holy crap! what kind of box is that? ...i'm gonna guess a server from the really low load averages and the CLI display

its an intel celeron D with 256mb of ram, at that time had ubuntu 5.10 and its primary use was as an eggdrop bot host, usenet downloader and file server, the cli was just a screensaver (which i LOVED but its dissapeared since 5.10 and i cant find a way to get it back :( )

[Mateo]

just curious: why keep your computer on that long?

[KaroSHiv0n]

why turn it off? stable os, no new hardware to be added, no reason to turn it off :)

[MaximB]

Mips - they don't show Linux uptime there...
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#os
and they have other problems...
and I don't get the issue of OS and server... I mean it either a server or a regular "home" OS.

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why th high uptime you ask.
well...
1. it's not healthy to turn ON the PC several times a day (not to be turned on).
2. we are downloading and sharing stuff ;)
3. some of us have servers
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[jdhore]

back AGAIN on topic :

I wonder, do any of you have a high uptime with your Windows PC ???
(is it possible without updating and actually using it ?).

the highest uptime i've EVER gotten on a Windows XP box is about 6 and a half days

[KaroSHiv0n]

ive gotten 20 days out a windows box (by sheer accident) it was sat under my desk doing nothing, by the time i had discovered it was on, it had used its entire os drive (40 gig minus say 1 gig for windows) as virtual memory >_<

[Mateo]

why turn it off? stable os, no new hardware to be added, no reason to turn it off :)

electric bill?

[Koori23]

current uptime is 2 days, 5:41, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.15, 0.06. That's GNOME running but no other programs..

I tend to reboot every 8 days or so.. I really don't have a good reason for doing it.. I just do..

I did notice though, that Linux does work a bit better the more you keep it on.. That might just be me but, everything runs really fast after it's been on for a while.

[Koori23]

electric bill?

Could be wrong, but computers are generally low electricity users. Besides that, it's actually less stressful for your hardware (mobo is kept a consistent temperature, Power Supply isn't stressed as much)..

[Mateo]

Could be wrong, but computers are generally low electricity users. Besides that, it's actually less stressful for your hardware (mobo is kept a consistent temperature, Power Supply isn't stressed as much)..

use more electricity when they are on than when they are off, correct? ;)

[Koori23]

use more electricity when they are on than when they are off, correct? ;)

Alrighty.. I see your point.. That statement doesn't make complete sense.. Ya got me.. As I re-read that, it doesn't even make sense to me now..

anyway, here's what I found out by a quick google search.. Perhaps this website will shut me up completely..

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question328.htm

[Mateo]

Ouch, now I really don't want to keep my computer on after reading that article.

[AndyW]

lol I just checked this windows pc I'm on and got this:


The date was wrong and then it fixed itself.

[MaximB]

WOW - AndyW - do you actually USE it ? or is it just on all the time ?
I must say , you beat us all 2206 days ...

[Canis familiaris]

Usually is 2-3 hours but my max went upto 11 hours

[pmj]

My Windows 2000 desktop, back when I still used it, was up for over 6 months as most. Frankly, I don't see Ubuntu as any more stable than a well maintained Windows system. Well, as long as it likes your hardware and you don't install much software or security fixes, that is. :)

Right now, my uptimes are mostly hurt by loss of power and upgrades. Current uptime: 11:15:55 up 58 days, 7:16, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.06

[ice60]

and can someone tell me what is "load average: 1.95, 2.32, 1.98" in the "uptime" means ?i was reading about how load avaerage is different to CPU percentages the other day, i had to re-read the thing about 5 times because i wasn't concentrating very well :rolleyes: anyway, if you have one processor then a load average of 1 would mean your CPU is being used perfectly - no processes are waiting to use the processor and the processor is being used continuously without any delays. the same applies to a load average of 2 if you have 2 processors etc, etc anything over those numbers means instructions are having to wait to use the processor/s while other instructions are run.

[KaroSHiv0n]

electric bill?

a pc running without a monitor (as that was almost always) costs pennies per day.

[Mateo]

Did you read that article Koori23 found? It suggests otherwise.

[iPower]

don't remember :-k

uptime now
19:07:12 up 4 days, 8:30, 2 users, load average: 1.45, 1.34, 1.28

[EdThaSlayer]

I had mine on for around a week,until the cpu overheated and my computer got "stuck".Fan was a bit dusty...

My current uptime is:
21:12:42 up 1 day, 3:20, 2 users, load average: 2.45, 1.37, 0.75

[KaroSHiv0n]

'wasted money' per year = £50, effect of chip creep= new mobo = more than £50. also, i run 6 pc's 24/7 and our electcity bill is only about £8 per month (about $15) more than when we only had one, allowing for inflation, thats not a significan rise.

[Milos_SD]

My current uptime is:
21:46:13 up 8:32, 2 users, load average: 0.37, 0.72, 0.89

But, my longest uptime recorded by xlack script for xchat was: 1d 6h 20m 18s

[Mateo]

'wasted money' per year = £50, effect of chip creep= new mobo = more than £50. also, i run 6 pc's 24/7 and our electcity bill is only about £8 per month (about $15) more than when we only had one, allowing for inflation, thats not a significan rise.

While I think there probably is some truth to the adage that turning on a computer is hard on the motherboard, I don't think it's a significant probably. In my 20+ years of computer use, I've never had a motherboard burn out. And as that article points out, televisions and other electronic devices survive much more frequent on/off changes and they are made of the same types of parts as computers. I have had a few TVs give out on me (though I wouldn't know if on/off played a part in that), but even that was very rare compared to the amount of TVs I just got tired of.

[KaroSHiv0n]

While I think there probably is some truth to the adage that turning on a computer is hard on the motherboard, I don't think it's a significant probably. In my 20+ years of computer use, I've never had a motherboard burn out. And as that article points out, televisions and other electronic devices survive much more frequent on/off changes and they are made of the same types of parts as computers. I have had a few TVs give out on me (though I wouldn't know if on/off played a part in that), but even that was very rare compared to the amount of TVs I just got tired of.

fair enough, but the computers i learned on/used at college were old, and due to being near constantly re-booted we needed to fit at least one new mobo each lesson so im always v aware of the stress components feel.

[AndyW]

if you keep your computer on 24/7 you might as well run Folding at home (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102313)
here is a faq that might help if you have questions

[Henry Rayker]

I had my Windows XP box up for almost a month and a half once.

[Dale61]

My desktop never gets turned off (unless we lose power), but I would reboot into Winblow$ every 3-4 days for DVD archiving.

[gunbladeiv]

my current uptime:
15:34:11 up 15:08, 4 users, load average: 0.18, 0.21, 0.16
This is for my lappy which run Gutsy Gibbon. Need to restart a few time cause i'm still in the process to make it stable.

My uptime for Sony Vaio runs FC4:
15:39:51 up 478 day, 8:11 , 2 users, load average: 0.46, 0.98, 0.23
FC4 running for my web server which i didnt use at all. Just let it do whatever it wants. haha..

[hyper_ch]

I had once over 3 months.

[hhhhhx]

00:53:14 up 3:24, 2 users, load average: 0.60, 0.64, 0.61

-- i use a laptop:lolflag:

[other guy]

I just rebooted. So,about 2 hours. This is not a server.

Usually I pay no mind to if it is left on and for how long. For months at a time usually. The monitor and speakers go off unless I need them.

Other machines in the home are usually left off until needed. Since this one is always ready for use, at any time.

It only costs me around $6 a month to run it 24/7. Varied use levels and use times. I will gladly take the small hit on the electric bill. Having it ready and not waiting for the boot. It matches my "always on internet."

1 minute boot times(at least). Calculated for the month= 30 minutes of lost time each month(at least.) I save money and time leaving it on.

[MaximB]

From bash.org :

<matt____> hey guys is there a way to patch an older redhat server??
<matt____> Linux devcvs 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
<Evolution> holy hell
<Evolution> 2.2.16?
<Evolution> just out of curiosity, what's the uptime on that antique?
<matt____> devnu11:18am up 2287 days, 2:52, 25 users, load average: 1.76, 1.26, 0.70
<Zathrus> gods
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[Gigamo]

18d 5h on my Windows XP gaming box :D. About 3 days on linux.

[Akkeasd]

1 month, and couple days on Linux. :)


With Windows maybe 2 weeks. :D

[tehet]

From bash.org :

<matt____> hey guys is there a way to patch an older redhat server??
<matt____> Linux devcvs 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
<Evolution> holy hell
<Evolution> 2.2.16?
<Evolution> just out of curiosity, what's the uptime on that antique?
<matt____> devnu11:18am up 2287 days, 2:52, 25 users, load average: 1.76, 1.26, 0.70
<Zathrus> gods
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:lolflag:

[cb951303]

a pc running without a monitor (as that was almost always) costs pennies per day.

actually if you use an LCD screen even your CPU has more wattage ;)

[MaximB]

it's 6.352777778 YEARS !

[kamaboko]

A couple of years ago I had to make a survey of all of our servers or desktops providing services on the company network. I found an old HP desktop with Windows 95 on it running a service (though I can't recall the specific service at this moment). Turns out this thing was on for just over eight years and it was still doing its job! It was tucked in a corner along with a few other HP desktops covered in dust and obviously forgotten over time.

[inversekinetix]

7 months on win2k

[Flying caveman]

sherman@magic-pornbox:~$ uptime
20:11:28 up 32 days, 22:34, 2 users, load average: 1.70, 1.49, 1.31
sherman@magic-pornbox:~$


thats my laptop. I had to shut down the desktops because the power went out a few times during a recent storm. I'm wondering why i have my UPS hooked up to a computer that isn't being used right now.

[sujoy]

on an average its 2 days max for my laptop and hardly 8-9 hrs for the desktop.

[amadeus266]

My PC has problems when it starts cold so I never shut it off if I don't have to, therefor, my longest uptime was however long it was between Fiesty kernel updates. (Now on Gutsy, last shutdown was 5 days ago when a major storm went through)

[bufsabre666]

2 months under xp

4 months under feisty

[hellion0]

23:11:32 up 17 days, 23:38, 5 users, load average: 0.36, 0.44, 0.26

Power outage 2 1/2 weeks ago shut down all of my machines.

[-grubby]

my longest uptime was 9 days. Than a power outage occured :(