What is your uptime?

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I would like to see what the usual uptimes are. Some systems run for a loooong time without any need to reboot. This is my weather data server:

top - 13:10:13 up 870 days,  4:40,  2 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.21, 0.13
Tasks:  80 total,   2 running,  78 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.5%id,  0.5%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1995676k total,  1974516k used,    21160k free,   374356k buffers
Swap:  6297472k total,      108k used,  6297364k free,    57716k cached
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Longest uptime on my recently deceased SUSE 9.0 box:

1066 days (1066, when William the Konqueror entered the UK)

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More than 2 Years…
openSUSE is always on one or two of my computers, one Gnome and a KDE4.
The other 3 computers in the Art-Studio, well… SimplyMEPIS and Mandriva. One old computer is for testing, a old Dell. :wink:
Greetings,
Artfreddy

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Generally since the last kernel update or hardware change. Keeping software up to date is more important to me than my uptime is longer than yours. :slight_smile:

However this is from a server:

  9:17am  up 1249 days 22:11,  0 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

It’s actually a bit of concern because it’s unknown if the BIOS battery would allow it to boot if the power ever got cut.

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Generally since the last kernel update or hardware change.

Yep. For me it was a harddisk crash on that meteo server. And sometimes it is as simple as a power outage without a UPS.

Keeping software up to date is more important to me than my uptime is longer than yours.

I have some servers living peacefully within a protected LAN. Once they have proven to run reliably and do their job I will not touch anything or update software. Updating something which works well was always a good way to break things. I am not looking for uptime records (touch wood) but I am lazy and I don’t like to fix things which worked before :slight_smile:

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I’m one of those strange people that turns off their PC when not in use. Perhaps that makes me a green person twice over:D
Once for saving energy & twice for having Opensuse.

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  • Sagemta wrote, On 01/03/2010 06:56 AM:
    > I’m one of those strange people that turns off their PC when not in use.

Especially when it is a laptop:
18:48pm up 7:08, 3 users, load average: 1.73, 1.59, 1.45

Honestly, with the frequent security related kernel updates, “uptime” is not a very good quality indicator for a Linux system.
I’ll miss my Netware boxes <sniff>

Uwe

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SAVE energy:

7:09pm up 10:21, 4 users, load average: 1.18, 1.20, 1.18

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palladium

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  • palladium wrote, On 01/03/2010 07:09 PM:
    > SAVE energy:

It’s winter! Every computer running lowers my heating bill :wink:

Uwe

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Unless you’re running a bunch of hotness from Hell like the P4 Prescot’s at full power, I bet you wouldn’t notice temperature changes if you have a large living room

Also, it may lower heating bill but at the expense of electricity bill :wink:

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top - 15:02:45 up 2 days, 21:09, 3 users, load average: 1.92, 1.55, 1.36
This is a long time for me because every time I run zypper up, I have a dozen apps running with deleted files. So, I reboot often. Occasionally, I log out/in to fix that.

I run boinc for the World Community Grid on their cancer cure projects. I don’t mind running the electric all night for that. :slight_smile:

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18:57pm up 7 days 20:36, 4 users, load average: 4.97, 4.67, 4.37

Pretty good for a laptop.

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It never crashes. Only reboot when I upgrade a kernel or O/S or want to clean out the dust from the machine. Very rare.

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On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:06:02 +0000, Meatwad wrote:

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> 18:57pm up 7 days 20:36, 4 users, load average: 4.97, 4.67, 4.37
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> Pretty good for a laptop.

Suspend/resume helps with that a lot. My primary laptop (which is being
upgraded today to 11.2) has an uptime of 14 days, last reboot was a
kernel update IIRC.

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator