What was your longest uptime?

State what operating systems you are running, and what was the longest uptime you've had with it.

Me, i run winxp, so far my longest uptime has been 6days.
(right now)

on linux
107 days.

What about you?

are you talking about office pc or hosting servers ? :cool:

Hosting Services: I don't know host sites but the lonest my site has ever been up before going down for a prolonged amount of time is probably..1 month

My Home PC: Well, Since I got Windows XP 2 months ago I haven't restarted yet nor had too (Unlesss I installed new software)

Here's a tiny one running FreeBSD:

8:24AM up 132 days, 19:20, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00

It's a personal one that sits on my network at home. Mainly for testing things. I think 132 days ago is when I upgraded it (forget by now).

On my personal computer, the longest I've ever been able to keep Windows 98 running for was 13 days. That was over a year ago since I don't use Windows anymore. Linux is like the Energizer bunny. It keeps going, and going, and going. The longest I've kept Linux running for was 87 days. The power went out on me. :( Right now my uptime is:

8:52am up 23 days, 8:48, 0 users, load average: 0.04, 0.05, 0.07

My old linux box had 349 days uptime. It finally had hard drive failure but we didn't shut it off til people got annoyed enough from the sound.. hehehehe.. :)

do you guys have extra money to keep your home boxes running 24 hours. :(

hmm, by the way i guess electricity is very cheap in USA. :rolleyes:

i don't keep my system running while i am not on desk i have setup shutdown after 30 minutes on my windows so its turns itself off when i am not on my desk. POWER savings. hehehe. :D

I generally keep my desktop on during the daytime, and switch it off at night, saves a lot of power. Being a desktop machine there shouldn't really be any reason to keep it on during the night when not in use.

Btw, having uptimes longer than 100 days isn't too good on performance I don't think. I like to give my servers a reboot once every 100 days, so the RAM is cleared and everything is reset, which makes the server run at peak performance.

Alan

Originally posted by ho247
I generally keep my desktop on during the daytime, and switch it off at night, saves a lot of power. Being a desktop machine there shouldn't really be any reason to keep it on during the night when not in use.

Saves me from having to wait for Win2k to boot for 5 min, and keeps my conneciton open also....



Btw, having uptimes longer than 100 days isn't too good on performance I don't think. I like to give my servers a reboot once every 100 days, so the RAM is cleared and everything is reset, which makes the server run at peak performance.[/B]

I've got a Cobalt Qube thats been up for 249 days now, not in use, but just sitting here under my desk..... But many of my production servers have been up for over 100 days, and show no preformance hit.....

My Win2k box has had 48 days up with the same dialup connection for that time...

My computer is always on. I have to restart it when there is an error or it is going really slow. It usually takes about one minute to completely restart. This is Windows ME. On my old Windows 98, it used to take a few minutes. But one day it was asking some questions when I restarted it. I just answered yes. And after that, it took at least 20 minutes to load! I don't understand why, but I got used to it. That was on a 233 megahertz processor. Unfortunately, I do not own my own server.

On windows 95, about 47 days. On windows 2000, about three months. (Both of those were desktop PCs).

So you had to wait three months for your computer to load? Wow!

Surely, waiting 5 minutes bootup time is worth the wait, compared to spending the money on the electricity right?? I'm running Win2K Pro too.

Alan

I think a lot of us in the United States take electricity for granted sometimes, but computers really don't use up much electricy. It's the heaters and air-conditioners that use up the most electricity. Having high uptimes shouldn't affect performance, unless you're on Windows 9X which tends to eat itself from the inside-out as time goes by. I always leave my computer on. I really don't know why. I must have had a reason at one time, and it's just a habit now. I can't imagine my computer being off.

My RedHat Linux servers uptime are currently ranging from 28 to 91 days. But I've seen some of them reaching 200 days or so.

I just rebooted my desktop computer, so currently it is about 2 hours. Before that, it is like 1-2 weeks I think. Like some others here, I never turn off my computer. It runs Mandrake Linux and Win98. The only thing that is keeping me from having a long uptime is Counterstrike, I need to reboot to play that.

Originally posted by ho247
Surely, waiting 5 minutes bootup time is worth the wait, compared to spending the money on the electricity right?? I'm running Win2K Pro too.

1. I wasn't paying for the electricity.
2. Electricity is cheap in BC anyway.
3. For most of those three months my computer was doing rather heavy computations.

Originally posted by The Prohacker


I've got a Cobalt Qube thats been up for 249 days now, not in use, but just sitting here under my desk..... But many of my production servers have been up for over 100 days, and show no preformance hit.....

My Win2k box has had 48 days up with the same dialup connection for that time...

why don't you use hibernate function in windows it resumes windows in same state within few seconds.

also, i guess computer takes around
100watts power when in suspended mode
monitor = 3 watts (complete suspended)
can anyone know how much power monthboard + processor + hard drive + fans consume while in suspended or running mode. (i read it long time back may be 3 years back i don't remember right now).

:rolleyes:

Originally posted by mahinder

why don't you use hibernate function in windows it resumes windows in same state within few seconds.


I shut off my monitor on my desktop, but the hdd power down will just slow your computer down, esp, if your having it do something while your gone....

I've found that hibernation on Windows takes ages to load back again, similar thing when setting the computer to standby mode too. I've heard this has all be fixed in WinXP and it's all faster now.

Alan

Here's one of our RedHat 6.2 servers (yes, we actually use it for web/database serving):# uptime
9:08pm up 295 days, 17:25, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.07295 and counting... :)

Try heaven !

Never down or error NOTHING :D

wjensen@xfiles [~]# uptime

10:13pm up 314 days, 20:13, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.01

netcraft proof

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=pornhost.net

Bill,

I take it, the porn servers get the special treatment... :)

Originally posted by Site5-Matt
Here's one of our RedHat 6.2 servers (yes, we actually use it for web/database serving):# uptime
9:08pm up 295 days, 17:25, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.07295 and counting... :)

You didn't upgrade your kernel, did you?
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-130.html

Originally posted by priyadi
You didn't upgrade your kernel, did you?
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-130.html We have been working with RH 6.2 for quite a while now, and are well aware of all of it's "out-of-the-box" vulnerabilities (even though that's actually not a RedHat-specific vulnerability). The first thing that we do when we get a system online is upgrade the kernel--always.

Of course, if someone is working on a new system remotely and doesn't have the root pass, we can always use ptrace to drop root and do the upgrade. ;)

Matt

I don't think hibernate works on all computers, and Windows tends to mess things up when going into standby or hibernation.