I have a box at work that has an uptime of: 12:32:00 up 1971 days, 18:32, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:10 PM, David Parker <dpar...@utica.edu> wrote: > I have a box running Etch that hasn't been rebooted in 1,589 days: > > irp:~# uptime > 12:09:06 up 1589 days, 18:23, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.03 > irp:~# > > I swear this is real. :-) > > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net>wrote: > >> On 2013-04-20 19:24:00 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> > > That's theory. In practice, old machines get no longer supported... >> > > I submitted a bug report (and a patch), but AFAIK the bug has never >> > > been fixed. I upgraded everything except the kernel, without being >> > > sure I could boot it again (udev incompatibilities...). That's why >> > > the machine was no longer rebooted. >> > >> > And if you get into a situation where the machine reboots whether you >> > desire it or not? Power, cosmic ray hit, dead cooling fan, other? >> >> It was a laptop, so that power wasn't a problem. A hardware failure >> wuld have meant that the machine would be probably dead anyway (after >> the last boot the laptop was already more than 8 year old). This is >> actually what happened a few months ago: strange noises from the disk >> and I/O errors... >> >> > It happens. Even with UPS mains and redundant power supplies. >> > Hardware doesn't last forever. Will it boot? If so then great. If >> > not then you have a nasty problem to sort out and the machine is >> > down until you do. I would rather know about it on my schedule >> > rather than its schedule. >> >> Even if there were a software problem, I wouldn't have wasting my >> time to try to fix it for a machine that was almost no longer used >> (mainly just for portability testing), in particular if the machine >> couldn't boot. >> >> -- >> Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> >> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> >> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130421223223.gg9...@xvii.vinc17.org >> >> > > > -- > Dave Parker > Systems Administrator > Utica College > Integrated Information Technology Services > (315) 792-3229 > Registered Linux User #408177 >
