Topic: Your best uptime?

[Andy MacDonald]

Currently my little 5.1.2 e-smith server has been running for 198 days. It is a dual pentium pro 200 Kayak XU with 320 meg of ECC memory.
I have no UPS, which means I have to be careful when using the dodgey steam iron to press clothes.
Although it is a trusty little workhorse, it's going to only be turned off when it's replacement is ready. This has been spurred by lack of disk space.
I am dead certain that someone can beat my uptime, but I'd love to know how much by.
So please, post your best uptimes...

[Ray Mitchell]

I just had to reboot my v5.6U4 Pent 133 with 80Mb RAM and dual 4Gb HDDs in RAID1 as I did a software update.
It was running for 109 days, it is on a UPS which took it through a few minor power failures.
Not a record I'm sure but still OK.
It probably would have gone for another 109 though.
Regs
Ray

[Terry]

Had over 1 year and 4 months on my 5.1.2 server at work (just used for file sharing, so security isn't a problem) until the dreaded "blackout".  All non essential machines had to be shut down, and it's not considered essential.  Here's what I posted back on December 23:

8:13am up 257 days, 22:48, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.06, 0.02

on thread:  http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=6292.msg22570#msg22570

So, a quick bit of math puts the machine at ~480 days before it got shutdown.

Terry

PS-It's a Pentium 90 with 64 meg of ram.  

[Rich Lafferty]

From the colocated server formerly serving www.e-smith.com before it was
replaced by an in-house machine:

[root@manuel /root]# uptime
 1:12pm  up 500 days, 0 min,  2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.10, 0.10

Yes, we were a bit lax in upgrading that one. I had to write a new
version of "uptime" to work around the 497-day wraparound in the kernel!

It was shut down on day 502. We left it running an extra week to be sure to hit 500 days.

[Terry Brummell]

497 day wrap around you say?  Maybe mine didn't get shutdown during the blackout, the NT box plugged into the same power bar is considered "essential" and stayed on UPS for the duration.  And to correct my previous post, its a P166.

[Nathan Fowler]

Guys, not to be critical, but I honestly don't see how you can achieve that uptime AND have patched you box for the OpenSSL exploits and other vulnerabilities which require a reboot.  

[Terry]

My work box is behind the corp. firewall, and buried deep within the network.  It's just a subnet server, just for our group, it's not patched, and I don't plan on it.  "last" never shows anyone even trying to connect, ssh is off, smtp is off, ftp is off.  About the only thing running on it is http and samba.

[Nathan Fowler]

Why choose uptime over security?