I have a box running Etch that hasn't been rebooted in 1,589 days: irp:~# uptime 12:09:06 up 1589 days, 18:23, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.03 irp:~#
I swear this is real. :-) On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > On 2013-04-20 19:24:00 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > That's theory. In practice, old machines get no longer supported... > > > I submitted a bug report (and a patch), but AFAIK the bug has never > > > been fixed. I upgraded everything except the kernel, without being > > > sure I could boot it again (udev incompatibilities...). That's why > > > the machine was no longer rebooted. > > > > And if you get into a situation where the machine reboots whether you > > desire it or not? Power, cosmic ray hit, dead cooling fan, other? > > It was a laptop, so that power wasn't a problem. A hardware failure > wuld have meant that the machine would be probably dead anyway (after > the last boot the laptop was already more than 8 year old). This is > actually what happened a few months ago: strange noises from the disk > and I/O errors... > > > It happens. Even with UPS mains and redundant power supplies. > > Hardware doesn't last forever. Will it boot? If so then great. If > > not then you have a nasty problem to sort out and the machine is > > down until you do. I would rather know about it on my schedule > > rather than its schedule. > > Even if there were a software problem, I wouldn't have wasting my > time to try to fix it for a machine that was almost no longer used > (mainly just for portability testing), in particular if the machine > couldn't boot. > > -- > Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130421223223.gg9...@xvii.vinc17.org > > -- Dave Parker Systems Administrator Utica College Integrated Information Technology Services (315) 792-3229 Registered Linux User #408177
