From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 8 22:34:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from seven.Alameda.net (seven.Alameda.net [64.81.63.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9E737B416; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by seven.Alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 333BB3A239; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:34:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:34:26 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Greg Lehey Cc: Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Questions , Ulf Zimmermann Subject: Re: Record uptime for a FreeBSD system? Message-ID: <20011208223426.D76137@seven.alameda.net> Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <054901c18073$e1001d40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011209162607.B83634@monorchid.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011209162607.B83634@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 04:26:07PM +1030 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 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 On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 04:26:07PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 9 December 2001 at 6:39:26 +0100, 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. > > The highest I've seen is: > > Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 00:53:56 -0800 > From: Ulf Zimmermann > > DNS root /root # uptime > 2:11AM up 1128 days, 15:15, 2 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.02, 0.01 > DNS root /root # uname -a > FreeBSD DNS.Lamb.net 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Aug 7 12:17:56 PDT 1997 root@DNS.Lamb.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/DNS i386 > > That means the system must have been booted round 15 October 1998. > The message was only 2 weeks ago. Ulf, is it still up? > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers Nope, I took it a few days after that email down to switch the UPS. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message