In article <3f499846@dnews.tpgi.com.au>,
Stuart J. Browne <stuart@promed.com.au> wrote:
>> 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).

I thought that was fixed with the 5.0.5 release. I had the same
problem - but ISTR that I had seen the uptime past the 248 day
[that was the lbolt problem as I recall] but when I looked at it
at about 15 months I had not uptimes listed. It finally went down
a month or so later when the power company was out longer than the
UPS could handle it in an overnight situtation.

>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.

I finally reinstalled the OS in a mail server and a web server
after about 700 days of uptime - as I needed to finally upgrade the
OS. FreeBSD on those.


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com