From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 9 7: 6:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8515837B405 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 07:06:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fB9F1l929328; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:01:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C137E89.8070201@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 10:08:57 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Record uptime for a FreeBSD system? References: <054901c18073$e1001d40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There were a number of other answers ... I think a lot of us could fall into the category of saying, "What, exactly, do you mean by uptime?" Looking at my webserver, it's been up for 180 days. Last time I took it down for an upgrade, it had been up for ~170. Prior to that, it had been up for ~130 when the power went out for over 4 hours and the UPS died. Prior to that, I think it had been up for ~90 and we had to unplug it to rearrange some hardware. So, if you just mean the output of the uptime(1) command, the longest I've personally accomplished is 180 days (but that will change tomorrow ;) However, if you want to talk about OS-related uptime, I've seen over 300 days between having to reboot because of an OS issue, and then it was to upgrade FreeBSD. In over 2 years that machine has _never_ crashed or needed rebooted because of OS _problems_. It's nice that I can even upgrade Apache without having to reboot the system (which, it's about time I do. The version of Apache on that machine is getting a little stale) Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I was just wondering: What is the highest uptime anyone has ever seen on a > FreeBSD system? I assume it is several years, but what's the longest time > that anyone has actually verified (by looking at system status or some other > report that actually spells out the uptime, and marking it down for > posterity)? > > I had my NT and FreeBSD systems running very close for a while, but then a > persistent bug in the NT network driver (at least I think that's where it > is) gave me a blue screen on that system. FreeBSD is still running nicely. > It has only been ten days, though, which isn't a very long time for a > server. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message