uptime

[Cerf]

Hey,

Well, I have had my "server" running for a week (HTTP, smb, thats it for now). Now I have not done much with it because of school, but I am proud of the uptime

cerf@loki:~$ uptime
06:29:39 up 9 days, 4:13, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


Now considering, on my main machine, I shut it down when I sleep (its make too much noise in my room), and its a duel boot (win xp; vb dev (school)), my uptime has usually been around 4 hours.

Has anyone out there ever had a monster uptime. 100 days mabie? I'm sure its possible with the stability of linux/unix, I have just never heard of anyone who has done it

[happybunny]

last linux box i checked....250 days.

Windows Citrix box was well over a year.

[davisfactor]

Here's the uptime of a shell server I have access to:


uptime
17:51:12 up 288 days, 20:21, 1069 users, load average: 1.00, 1.02, 1.00


one of my linux servers at work

uptime
18:52:39 up 194 days, 17:36, 2 users, load average: 0.81, 0.72, 0.69


Not all that impressive considering that you NEVER have to reboot Linux unless you're adding hardware or upgrading the kernel. Which brings to light, if you ever see a Linux box that's been up for more than 2 years, you know they're vulnerable to the ptrace hole ;)

[bsm2001]

web server
uptime
17:00:03 up 17 days, 1:39, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.01

Scorched3d server:D
uptime
17:01:07 up 19 days, 18:16, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[blobaugh]

my intranet server has been up just over 100 days
laptop 10 days
desktops 2 days

[serz]

I've got a text file with all my uptimes, my max is:

07:24:05 up 108 days, 14:11, 3 users, load average: 1.14, 1.28, 1.54

[soulestream]

i cant get more than about 4 days on my linux box..

my 2 year old discovered the power button;)


soule

[Seven up]

Web server... busy huh? :D

21:50:32 up 104 days, 22:41, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[psi42]

My webserver got to 57 days, and then the power went out. :(

[TheSpeedoBeast]

Router at 43 until I bumped the surge protector switch. Ah well.

[techwise]

this is my debian mail/fax server:

02:33:01 up 104 days, 11:33, 1 user, load average: 1.30, 1.19, 1.08

I have high hopes for this one. Its a bare minimum install and I only use the security updates so unless there is an extended power outage, she'll stay up a good while.

Mike

[tlyons]

Originally posted by soulestream
my 2 year old discovered the power button;)

Same problem here. She's 14 months, and loves to press buttons (TV, monitors, computer, phone).

It not Linux's fault. :D If it weren't for her little fingers, power failures (no UPS), and breaker trips (only 100 amps in this place), who knows how much uptime I would have.

- T.

[mrBen]

mrben@hobbes:~/.vnc$ uptime
09:42:18 up 4 days, 13:34, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


Was forced to reboot after I knocked the network card out of its PCI slot while plugging in my headphones.....

Have not yet had to reboot this machine other than for going on holiday or replacing hardware. My best uptime was 99 days.

[ph34r]

I've got a box that has samba shares for some testing software (college placement stuff) that has been up and running non-stop for over 2 years. Not attached to the network (small 5 box network with no other connectivity for security) so I can't get a dump of the uptime, but like I said, over 2 years.

[cybertron]

20 days and some odd hours has been my best, and then a failed nVidia installation FUBAR'd X and the only suggestion in the documentation was a reboot. I think it's because my kernel sources got updated so when it compiled the module the version didn't match my running kernel.

The thing that sucks is that I was mere hours away from breaking my roommate's record 21 day uptime in Windows. Of course, my reboots involve hardware and kernel updates, as opposed to his which involve his computer locking up or misbehaving badly (and generally after a week it's so bad he has to reboot, while I think a week is just getting started):D

[bwkaz]

tlyons and soulestream: You need some molly-guards:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/molly-guard.html

:D

My uptimes are 8:40 on my desktop machine (which shuts down most nights), and 28 days, 22:32 hours on my server. Load average on both machines is dang near zero, which is a shame because the CPUs are being under-utilized. Ah well.

[cybertron]

Originally posted by bwkaz
My uptimes are 8:40 on my desktop machine (which shuts down most nights), and 28 days, 22:32 hours on my server. Load average on both machines is dang near zero, which is a shame because the CPUs are being under-utilized. Ah well.
Might I suggest the JustLinux Folding Team (http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36480)?:)

[tlyons]

Originally posted by bwkaz
tlyons and soulestream: You need some molly-guards:

Woo hoo! Check it out!

uptime
00:59:12 up 1 day, 8:33, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.19, 0.15

I do need a Molly-Guard though. I can't believe she didn't touch it. :)

- T.

[Gogeta_44]

I've had our network backup server (SMB) running 70-80 days currently on Slackware 10. Of-cource, the mouse and keyboard have both crashed (after I took them out to re-ajust cables), and the only way I get in besides server backups over samba would be through my palm in pssh. :D

EDIT:
Officially (via ssh):
00:01:07 up 80 days, 6:40, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.06, 0.02

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by cybertron
Might I suggest the JustLinux Folding Team (http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36480)?:) Yeah, I used to run Distributed Folding, before it shut down temporarily. (At least it was supposed to be temporary; I haven't been following their mailing list to see if something has changed since then.) I'm planning on starting it back up whenever the project restarts and begins running phase 3.

In the meantime, I should be running some other project for Free-DC (the team I was on), but I haven't put in the work to get another client running.

[MkIII_Supra]

When my wee one was out pushing buttons I came to a simple solution. Child gate across the room where my PC's were located. And if she got past that, I opened the case and moved the power switch to the back of the case where she couldn't reach and would have no reason to reach. Problem solved

Cost: $0.00
Time: 20-30 minutes per box ( I had 9 at the time )

As for uptimes, with the weather we have had and the awesome reliablity of Central California power companies, I can't get past 4 days. Even with UPS!

[raz0rblade]

My router/web/file/mail server

# Uptime | System Boot up
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
1 125 days, 15:40:39 | Linux 2.6.6 Sat Jun 5 16:48:39 2004
2 41 days, 20:15:46 | Linux 2.6.6 Sun Nov 7 19:33:03 2004
3 14 days, 01:38:58 | Linux 2.6.6 Sun Oct 24 15:39:07 2004
4 11 days, 09:07:05 | Linux 2.6.6 Sun Dec 19 17:30:34 2004
5 9 days, 13:32:51 | Linux 2.6.6 Fri Dec 31 03:44:48 2004
-> 6 6 days, 03:52:40 | Linux 2.6.6 Sun Jan 9 17:21:39 2005
7 5 days, 21:15:47 | Linux 2.6.6 Mon Oct 18 18:20:14 2004
8 5 days, 19:34:47 | Linux 2.6.6 Tue Oct 12 22:17:11 2004
9 3 days, 12:05:04 | Linux 2.6.6 Sat Oct 9 10:05:33 2004
10 0 days, 01:23:01 | Linux 2.6.6 Fri Dec 31 02:17:59 2004
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
1up in 3 days, 09:40:12 | at Wed Jan 19 06:54:29 2005
no1 in 119 days, 11:48:00 | at Sun May 15 10:02:17 2005


All of the reboots are from power outages or hardware updates. :)

edit - Note: These aren't the top 10, they're the 10 times I've booted since June 5th when I installed the OS. :)

[MorphiusFaydal]

Originally posted by raz0rblade
My router/web/file/mail server

# Uptime | System Boot up
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
1 125 days, 15:40:39 | Linux 2.6.6 Sat Jun 5 16:48:39 2004
2 41 days, 20:15:46 | Linux 2.6.6 Sun Nov 7 19:33:03 2004
3 14 days, 01:38:58 | Linux 2.6.6 Sun Oct 24 15:39:07 2004
4 11 days, 09:07:05 | Linux 2.6.6 Sun Dec 19 17:30:34 2004
5 9 days, 13:32:51 | Linux 2.6.6 Fri Dec 31 03:44:48 2004
-> 6 6 days, 03:52:40 | Linux 2.6.6 Sun Jan 9 17:21:39 2005
7 5 days, 21:15:47 | Linux 2.6.6 Mon Oct 18 18:20:14 2004
8 5 days, 19:34:47 | Linux 2.6.6 Tue Oct 12 22:17:11 2004
9 3 days, 12:05:04 | Linux 2.6.6 Sat Oct 9 10:05:33 2004
10 0 days, 01:23:01 | Linux 2.6.6 Fri Dec 31 02:17:59 2004
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
1up in 3 days, 09:40:12 | at Wed Jan 19 06:54:29 2005
no1 in 119 days, 11:48:00 | at Sun May 15 10:02:17 2005


All of the reboots are from power outages or hardware updates. :)

is that some software? or did you make that yourself?

[madcompnerd]

vincent% uptime
01:09 up 320 days, 11:55, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Mmm mmm. It's not linux though, sorry folks but it's a Digital Unix 4.0 machine.

01:09:43 up 148 days, 14:36, 13 users, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00

That one is a linux machine though.

1:10am up 198 days, 9:59, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

There's a cluster node (the head hasn't been up that long).

2:56PM up 18 days, 19:03, 6 users, load averages: 0.30, 0.09, 0.03

I had to shut that machine down at 18 days to move it, and it was actually getting used moderately heavily. Sad..

Whelp, 320, anybody got better :)?

[matt2kjones]

My webserver for my site hit 198 days uptime before the cooling on the server stopped the run and the server over heated and crashed

proof of this uptime is here: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.tlm-project.org

The server was three years old though

new server now, and new uptime record to beat :P

[Cerf]

Whoa, I never knew about the BitTorrent Linux Mirror, that is a great resource.

Thanks

[matt2kjones]

Originally posted by Cerf
Whoa, I never knew about the BitTorrent Linux Mirror, that is a great resource.

Thanks

Thanx glad you like

[dannybunkins]

one of my files servers was on for approx 82 days until my power supply went out

[Icarus]

Desktop
26 days, 15:32

Work's HP-UX
173 days, 14:57

I had a Red Hat 5.2 machine that had an uptime of over 400 days before the power supply failed.

[JayMan8081]

This is my office system running Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack.
[jhorsman@jhorsman jhorsman]$ uptime
16:15:20 up 12 days, 23:43, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.14, 0.16
It mostly gets used for C/C++ development with Eclipse.

[davisfactor]

Originally posted by MorphiusFaydal
is that some software? or did you make that yourself?

I was going to ask the same question. That's a nice layout!

[tlyons]

Originally posted by davisfactor
I was going to ask the same question. That's a nice layout!

After some poking around, I found the program : uptimed

Linky (http://www.linuxathome.net/programs3.php#uptimed)

Enjoy! (I am).

todd@Laurier:~$ uprecords
# Uptime | System Boot up
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
-> 1 1 day , 07:59:36 | Linux 2.6.8-1-k7 Wed Jan 19 17:04:56 2005
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------


- T.

[MorphiusFaydal]

Originally posted by tlyons
After some poking around, I found the program : uptimed

Linky (http://www.linuxathome.net/programs3.php#uptimed)

Enjoy! (I am).

todd@Laurier:~$ uprecords
# Uptime | System Boot up
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
-> 1 1 day , 07:59:36 | Linux 2.6.8-1-k7 Wed Jan 19 17:04:56 2005
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------


- T.

thank you!

and its in portage :)

app-misc/uptimed

merging now.. :-P

[tlyons]

Originally posted by MorphiusFaydal
thank you!
and its in portage :)

You're welcome :)

It's in apt-get, too, so it was no work for me to add (which is good, because I'm lazy... finding the software was as much work as I was in the mood for).

- T.

[raz0rblade]

I kind of forgot about this thread. :D
Yeah, uptimed rocks. :)

[Sepero]

I use 'ud'. It records my 3 longest uptimes.$ ud -d
- Uptime for blue -
Now : 5 day(s), 03:48:05 running Linux 2.4.26-1-k7
One : 7 day(s), 00:29:50 running Linux 2.4.26-1-k7, ended Sun Jan 16 08:45:58 2005
Two : 6 day(s), 14:41:54 running Linux 2.4.26-1-k7, ended Fri Nov 12 05:34:37 2004
Three: 5 day(s), 18:39:41 running Linux 2.4.26-1-k7, ended Wed Nov 3 19:29:25 2004

[tlyons]

Originally posted by Sepero
I use 'ud'. It records my 3 longest uptimes.

Uptimed's default is top 50, I think I capped it at the top 20.

I wonder how far down that top 50 list you could go, and still outlast Windows XP?

- T.

[cybertron]

Ooh, forgot to post back here with my new uptime from a couple of months ago. Finally got a decent one at 50 days before the power blinked (no UPS then, got one now, and I was moving out that day anyway so it didn't matter:)). Since not long after that I've been having trouble with hard lockups, so nothing very long at all. I'm hoping maybe it was just another flaky USB hub (I have all the luck with those), but that remains to be seen. At least I finally made it over 3 days now.:rolleyes:

[Calipso]

I had about 50 days give or take a day before power went down recently.

that uptimed app looks interesting.

[j79zlr]

Till my P2 died, my FreeBSD web/email/ftp server was always up for a long time. http://en.uptime-project.net/page.php?page=toplist&content=profile&uid=12594

[matt2kjones]

Got a server with over a years uptime now (366 Days):

Pic of screen: http://www.tlm-project.org/images/other/srv3_uptime.jpg

[psych-major]

A Slackware 8.1 machine at my previous employer has been up since I installed some RAM and a new video card...in April of 2004! I'll call my former operator Monday and get the actual uptime.

My Slack 10.1 box at my current office usually makes it 90-100 days before I get bored and change something.

[Syngin]

Home server:
syngin@gollum:~$ w
14:03:11 up 7 days, 19:24, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Debian work server:
syngin@smaug:~$ w
13:08:20 up 77 days, 22:32, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.76, 0.91

Redhat work server:
syngin@nemesis:~$ w
13:08:07 up 43 days, 25 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[psych-major]

A Slackware 8.1 machine at my previous employer has been up since I installed some RAM and a new video card...in April of 2004! I'll call my former operator Monday and get the actual uptime.

Well, my former night operator must have rebooted it last spring sometime, but the current uptime is 348 days!!! Not bad for Slack 8.1 on a PII 450Mhz machine...

[MorphiusFaydal]

morphius@deadbeat ~ $ uprecords
# Uptime | System Boot up
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
1 5 days, 04:51:49 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Mon Jun 20 08:32:26 2005
2 1 day , 12:57:20 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Wed Jul 6 10:03:57 2005
3 0 days, 17:49:30 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Mon Jul 11 09:24:59 2005
4 0 days, 16:50:39 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Thu Jul 21 11:39:14 2005
5 0 days, 16:33:27 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Wed Jul 20 11:20:58 2005
6 0 days, 16:28:40 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Fri Jul 15 10:41:40 2005
7 0 days, 16:03:31 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Wed Jul 13 10:30:51 2005
8 0 days, 15:51:58 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Tue Jul 12 11:25:44 2005
9 0 days, 15:41:19 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Sat Jul 9 11:51:18 2005
10 0 days, 15:07:42 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Fri Jul 22 13:00:41 2005
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
-> 18 0 days, 09:04:42 | Linux 2.6.11.11 Tue Jul 26 03:16:17 2005
----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
1up in 0 days, 00:00:54 | at Tue Jul 26 17:21:58 2005
no1 in 4 days, 19:47:08 | at Sun Jul 31 13:08:12 2005
morphius@deadbeat ~ $

home box, gentoo

[tcarradine]

Kernel Version 2.6.10-1.766_FC3
Uptime 89 days 20 hours 53 minutes
Current Users 1
Load Averages 0.19 0.05 0.01

home office server / fc3
Tim

[techwise]

Hard to believe I first posted in this thread 6mo ago.

My machines are still up and the long one is 300 days today.

Linux makes me happy.

Cheers

M

[Gertrude]

Here are some nice looking ones..


# uptime
9:29pm up 617 day(s), 2:24, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.03



# uptime
9:37pm up 856 day(s), 13:55, 1 user, load average: 0.45, 0.50, 0.53



# uptime
9:40pm up 856 day(s), 18:46, 1 user, load average: 0.92, 1.00, 1.00



# uptime
9:40pm up 846 day(s), 21:18, 1 user, load average: 0.67, 0.71, 0.73

[leonpmu]

Gertrude, are those your boxen? That is impressive!!

[Gertrude]

Gertrude, are those your boxen? That is impressive!!

They are from work. My home computers mostly get shut off when I'm not using them to keep down on the heat durring the summer months.

[leonpmu]

Are those Linux boxen? Because doesn't the uptime have a rollover of five years or something? I thought I remember seeing that on netcraft one day.

*/me goes to check*

hmm here it is, quote from Netcraft

Why do some Operating Systems never show uptimes above 497 days ?

The method that Netcraft uses to determine the uptime of a server is bounded by an upper limit of 497 days for some Operating Systems (see above). It is therefore not possible to see uptimes for these systems that go beyond this upper limit. Although we could in theory attempt to compute the true uptime for OS's with this upper limit by monitoring for restarts at the expected time, we prefer not to do this as it can be inaccurate and error prone.

Why do you not report uptimes for Linux 2.6 or Linux alpha/ia64 ?

The Linux kernel switched to a higher internal timer rate at kernel version 2.5.26. Linux 2.4 used a rate of 100Hz. Linux 2.6 uses a timer at 1000Hz. (An explanation of the HZ setting in Linux.) The above applies to Linux on 32-bit Intel-compatible systems (which is the most common case). Linux on other platforms uses different timer rates: the Alpha and Intel ia-64 ports already used 1000Hz, while the ports for sparc, m68k and other less common processors continue to use 100Hz. The Linux TCP code only uses the low 32 bits of the timer. Due to the faster rate of the timer, the value wraps around every 49.7 days (whereas it used to wrap after 497 days). Because there are large numbers of Linux systems which have a higher uptime than this, it is no longer possible to report accurate uptimes for these systems.
Ta daa.

There you have it.

[mrhoyt4]

14:03:17 up 158 days, 42 min, 4 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00

Its been running folding@home the whole time.

Here is a mac I use just for Itunes.
14:24 up 102 days, 6:15, 2 users, load averages: 0.21 0.20 0.18

[matt2kjones]

Are those Linux boxen? Because doesn't the uptime have a rollover of five years or something? I thought I remember seeing that on netcraft one day.

*/me goes to check*

hmm here it is, quote from Netcraft


Ta daa.

There you have it.

you right, and wrong.

the information on netcraft is to do with netcraft only. They are unablke to remotly get the uptime of a machine accuratly after a certain amount of days (depending on kernel version) because of kernel timings and such.

This is not the case when logging directly into the box..... uptime will report the correct uptime no problem..... i have seen photos taken of monitors with computers over 1000 days uptime.

if you look on http://arpa.net

there is a system there with 1002 days uptime or something

[cybertron]

An uptime of one year seems like a good way to necro this thread.;)

14:28:21 up 365 days, 19:30, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00

[davisfactor]

Wow, this _is_ an old thread.

I checked all 10 or so of my Linux servers and most of them were between 150 to 250 days.

However, the server that does the most work topped them all and has plenty of resources to spare.

user@server:[~]: uptime
14:54:49 up 420 days, 15:42, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.09, 0.08


Now, if you want to talk about router and switch uptime I can easily beat 420 days! :)

[cybertron]

Wow, this _is_ an old thread.
Yeah, but there are probably people who haven't rebooted since the post before mine was made.:)

[paj12]

Just a few days ago, I got up to 120 days (a personal best) on my router until a thunderstorm knocked out the power. This was a 200 MHz K6 with 32 MB of RAM and Slack 11.0

Current uptime:
# uptime
17:39:02 up 3 days, 16:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Why do I have to live in the lightning capital of the US?

[drsatch]

Pentium 233 64mb ram

08:48:37 up 170 days, 6:47, 1 user, load average: 1.48, 1.47, 1.40

---

VoIP Server - P4, 512mb

08:50:02 up 88 days, 19:41, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[Syngin]

I use 'ud'. It records my 3 longest uptimes.$ ud -d
- Uptime for blue -
Now : 5 day(s), 03:48:05 running Linux 2.4.26-1-k7
One : 7 day(s), 00:29:50 running Linux 2.4.26-1-k7, ended Sun Jan 16 08:45:58 2005
Two : 6 day(s), 14:41:54 running Linux 2.4.26-1-k7, ended Fri Nov 12 05:34:37 2004
Three: 5 day(s), 18:39:41 running Linux 2.4.26-1-k7, ended Wed Nov 3 19:29:25 2004


Same here.