Or: "What's an order of magnitude between friends?" So, my desktop (which has no UPS, by the way) has been up for more than 500 days. Evidently, the linux kernel doesn't like going more than 500 days without being rebooted :) $ uptime 09:44:41 up 5 days, 21:38, 50 users, load average: 1.10, 1.36, 1.03 Hmm, that's funny, my system's only been up for 5 days? I know I've been logged in for longer than that: $ ps auxww |grep screen pll 4509 0.0 0.2 6324 1060 ? S 2009 0:55 xscreensaver Cool, not only has it only been up for 5 days, but I won't be starting xscreensaver for another 2 years!
I remember looking at uptime a few weeks ago, and it was around 475 days. I was pretty psyched I could get to that level of uptime on a desktop system :) For those that care, this is a Dell GX250, which is somewhere between 5-7 years old, running a 2.4.27 based kernel. Prior to the last reboot it was installed with some version of Debian woody, but has apt-get run countless times to upgrade it to being a mostly, but not quite entirely etch-based system. I *really* need to upgrade to X.org, but fear I can't do so without a reboot, and based on the age of the hardware, I'm afraid to do so. It really might never come back :( While uptimes like this are not uncommon to Linux, or UNIX in general, it's usually a server with that kind of uptime. Not a desktop, and certainly not without a UPS! What's the uptime record for desktops without a UPS? (I wonder what the Windows uptime record is ? :) -- Seeya, Paul _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/