Bob Bailin wrote:
>
> "SCO Announces Winners of Longest Running Server Competition at Annual
> Customer Conference
>
> "Eckerd and Zenez Recognized by SCO for Longest Running UNIX Servers Eckerd
> runs uninterrupted for a decade on OpenServer, Zenez runs on UNIX for 20
> years"
>
> When SCO announced this contest a few months ago, I thought they were
> looking for the longest *continuously* running SCO server. With all the
> occasional routine maintenance that one has to do on a typical system,
> I knew I didn't have a chance. I expected the winner to have a system
> with a continuous uptime of 2 or 3 years possibly. (No more due to
> the mandatory Y2K upgrades.)
>
> But from the content of this article, it seems that they chose 2 worthy
> companies who have simply *used* SCO systems on a continual basis,
> with breaks for maintenance and upgrades, for 11 and 20 years,
> respectively.
>
> Since my company started with Xenix 2.3.4GT back in 1991, I feel a little
> bit
> left out. Not that I feel that I should have won, because I know that
> there are many people on the ng with years longer experience
> using SCO in a single company.
>
> So did the right companies win this contest in your opinion?
>
> Bob


I read and misunderstood the contest also. I guess that makes Boyd a winner
for getting the rules right.

Anyone care to post the longest uninterrupted up time. At one customers site
a 5.0.4 SMP system was up for just over 400 days, at almost 100% utilization.
It would erase a Progress database, get a data dump from the primary machine,
reload the database, back it up to tape, and run some large reports. Towards
the end it was taking 21.5 to 23 hours everyday at full load to finish. I ran
a "netstat -m" on the machine and it took a minute to realize that the numbers
were so large that the whole screen was garbled, I though the command had gone
bad.

Under normal load I have some customers servers that have run around 700 days,
but the came down for service.

Anyone else?

Mike
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