From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 2 15:31:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09754 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 15:31:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from terra.stack.nl (terra.stack.nl [131.155.140.128]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA09747 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 15:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from xaa.stack.nl (uucp@localhost) by terra.stack.nl (8.8.5) with UUCP id AAA29685; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:31:10 +0100 (MET) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by xaa.stack.nl (8.8.5/8.8.2) id AAA28339; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:28:42 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970303002842.15745@xaa.stack.nl> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:28:42 +0100 From: Mark Huizer To: Peter Korsten Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uptime References: <199702271713.JAA23356@ref.tfs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.64 In-Reply-To: ; from Peter Korsten on Sun, Mar 02, 1997 at 12:57:15PM +0100 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Mar 02, 1997 at 12:57:15PM +0100, Peter Korsten wrote: > Julian Elischer shared with us: > > > > unfortunatly not actually FreeBSD, but a BSD43/MACH combination system > > (but running a lot of the same code) > > > > 10:36am up 500 days, 13:08, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.03, 0.02 > > The computerclub of the university in Eindhoven had a SysV release 2 > machine that was up for over 512 days. At one time, uptime had to be > patched because it used a too small datatype for the number of days. > Then they had to move, the machine had to go down, and when switched > on, one disk didn't work anymore. > > Just to think that I made a good start porting tcsh. > Good thing... what machine was that? I remember gem and its 400 days of uptime :-) Mark (eeh... also from that computerclub :-)