2 years of uptime

[yesthattom]

newjoisey.whatexit.org% uptime
  1:31am  up 703 day(s),  5:26,  11 users,  load average: 0.19, 0.12, 0.14

In 27 days my server will have been up for 2 years.

TWO FREAKIN’ YEARS.

BSD’s don’t be hurtin’,
Linux don’t you whine,
Keep your mouth shut Windows,
can’t beat Solaris uptime!

Comments

[rainbear.livejournal.com]

*duck*

..and the last time you did any security patches was...

*duck & run* ;-) ;-)

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

That was exactly my thought.

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

Those of us in NetBSD land do just fine ... on the right hardware:

NetBSD 1.6.2_STABLE (DS3305) #9: Wed Mar 17 01:23:20 PST 2004
    root@digital.clock.org:/usr/obj/sys/arch/alpha/compile/DS3305
DIGITAL Server 3000 Model 3305 6500A, 500MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
total memory = 512 MB

% uptime
10:57PM  up 457 days, 21:20, 14 users, load averages: 1.50, 1.28, 1.19

They suck power (good thing it's cheaper in NV than CA), and they are troublesome to cool (it's good that the nights are cool up here at 6,500 feet), but there ain't nothing like a good ol' DEC Alpha.

careful there hoss ...

[henare.livejournal.com]

you keep talking like that and maybe a disk will fail or something. :)

(oh, and i've had linux uptime like that, too ... )

[cpj.livejournal.com]

I second rainbear's comment.

Two years without adding patches.

I think it's safe to say that Unix/Linux has won the uptime wars, hands down.

[lilbjorn.livejournal.com]

Patches? We don't need no stinkin' patches!

[cpj.livejournal.com]

Of course, within those 2 years, there was at least 1 major upgrade release of Solaris. :P

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Yes, but nothing that was needed by me. I'm processing millions of emails and dozens of web pages.

[mg4h.livejournal.com]

Power outages. That's all I gotta say for uptime.

Oh, and required patching every two-four months, many of which want a reboot afterwards.

*sigh*

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first time I had a Linux box stay up for more than 256 days the "ruptime" (or maybe it was uptime) command wrapped around and showed 0 days.

When the bug was reported, the reply we got was, "Gosh, most Linux users patch and reboot so often this isn't an important issue."

I hope that 10 years late Linux maintainers have improved their attitude.

indeed

[chrisla.livejournal.com]

Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.6 Generic August 1997
# uptime
10:24am up 1332 day(s), 7 min(s), 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.01, 0.02

(the last one was due to a datacenter wide power shutdown to do some maint. on the electric systems.)