I have had more than one customer tell me that their Linux boxes have been up
without reboot for more than a year. They moved to Linux from NT/2000
because the daily / weekly reboots were unacceptable, as was the cost of a
Solaris box. This was one reason my company has chosen to go with ALL Linux
solutions...affordable reliability!!
On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:08, you wrote:
> According to this link:
>
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1998-12-29-002-10-NW-CY
>
> a machine could have done about 992 days (2.7 years) IF it had not been
> shutdown for UPS maintenance. That seems about right and is supported
> by this excerpt from the SLUG mailing list:
> ------------------------------------------
> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:52:30 EST
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] SuSE 7.3 retail
>
> <snip>
>
> ....Until the storm last ?month? I had uptimes of 2 years on two of my
> boxes.
>
> Scot Mc Pherson
> -------------------------------------------
>
> Starting with the 1.2 kernel I believe there's a jiffy counter that will
> over flow and reset back to zero after so many days (440+??). Kernels
> prior to 1.2 that were the subject of a legend I once heard. The story
> told of the existence of a pre-1.2 box somewhere that has been in
> production continuously since before NT was released. That would put it
> about 7 years. Anybody heard that one?
>
> I personally experienced about 5-6 months on a 2.0.x kernel. It would
> have been 3 more months if I had plugged the machine into the correct
> UPS outlet when I first got a UPS. The uptime would have been longer
> but I had to shut this machine down and move it for a carpet installation.
>
> Ed.
>
> Bill wrote:
> > t seems to me that I have read of Linux boxes with uptimes of years. Does
> > anyone have a link to a web page about this topic?
> >
> > Bill
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