> 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.

We had a server that was using a custom written app with roughly 120 users
up for just shy of 500 before bringing it down for maintenance.

Now, I think the best client box we've got out there is 430 days, but
that's on a Linux box.. *hide*

I do have a number of servers which have lost count of their uptime days
(which from memory was a wrap at 248 or something days).

3:50pm up 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00
4:03pm up 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Longest current uptime on a SCO box:

2:51pm up 493 days, 15:45, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00

much fun. These 3 are from 'backup' (DR) machines, thus no users. They do
serve as RDBMS servers for other purposes though, as well as data
mirroring.

some high ranking Linux boxes:

3:04pm up 423 days, 13:34, 4 users, load average: 0.37, 0.34, 0.29
4:17pm up 467 days, 3:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
2:48pm up 493 days, 6:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00

They just keep going.. 'net gateway's and mail/web servers.

fun..

bkx