Re: Uptime Statistics

From: Aragorn (stryder_at_telenet.invalid)
Date: 10/16/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:19:01 GMT

On Sunday 16 October 2005 19:58, Crashdamage stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/

> My best UT was with an old Pentium 166 running RedHat 6.2 (no X) that
> I had turned into a combo router/mailserver for my business. It was
> hooked to a large enough battery backup that power outages never
> lasted long enouh to take it down. It managed to stay up from
> sometime in early 2001 'til about Jan 2004, so it was up for something
> close to 3 years. A bad CPU fan finally forced a shutdown or who
> knows?
>
> I'll probably never do that again since I no longer run a Linux box at
> work. But my office fileserver runs Novell 5.1 which is rock-solid
> and it's made it for over a year before. I'll never run UT like that
> with this home box as I don't have an APC on it and power blips always
> get it, but it never crashes. It was up to 59 days 'til a power
> outage got it recently. Just starting to build up some time again
> (see X-Uptime in my header).

Since you mention Novell... I've heard about this little anecdote quite
a while back...

There was a University in the US that had some construction works going
for a while. About four years later, in an audit, it was discovered
that one of the servers was not accounted for. Nobody knew where that
machine was, but apparently it was up and running.

So they did the most logical thing... They followed the cable to where
it led... and found out that the machine had been masoned in four years
earlier! All this time, the machine had been running flawlessly and
had needed no maintenance.

I'd like to see that happen to an NT server. <grin> It would already be
rediscovered about two weeks later, when it is time to reboot... ;-) 

-- 
With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(Registered Gnu/Linux user #223157)

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