Messages in this thread |  | | From | "J. Dow" <> | Subject | Re: MTBF data for linux | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 22:46:44 -0700 |
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From: "Chris Wedgwood" <cw@f00f.org> To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> We ran 1.2.13lmp for about 1100 days before the box finally got > turned off - twice around the uptime clock and more > > That's must be some kind of unofficial record... I though 400+ days > was pretty neat, but 1100 says is really impressive, especially on a > kernel which has races with jiffie wraps...
Um, another "uptime benchmark" is the little machine (old 75MHz Pentium) we use here as our internal net's gateway to the internet via IP Masquerading. It is the machine on the net with the honorary unimaginative name, linux. Little linux endeared himself to me by reaching 450+ days uptime as a v.90 dialup and internal http server before I rebooted him for some upgrades. We went DSL. I needed to install a new NIC. I'm not adventuresome enough to hotplug a PCI card. So at something like 450 days, 6 hours and somewhat more than another half hour he was cleanly shutdown. I installed a new disk as hdc, a new CDROM as hdd, a new NIC, and rebooted. He came up clean first time. Then I partitioned and mounted the new disk, transferred critical files, and rebooted again to install RedHat 6.2 and once more to upgrade the kernel. He has a month of uptime at this point. (I took him down one more time to remove the tiny original disks he ran on and move the 2gig drive to hda and the CDROM to hdc after he'd been up and clean about a week and a half.)
It appears Linux stays up longer than you care to leave it up. I admit this was with no load to speak of. But it was kinda fun to hold a birthday party for him at one year. (Heh, I even moved him across the room sitting on top of the UPS when I rearranged the furniture on my side of the room. hey, I'm female. I get to do silly things like that. {O,o})
Er, do the True64 machines have any practical uptime problem? The one BIX runs on seems to accumulate some impressive uptime under the load the tiny number of remaining members place on the machine.
{^_^}
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