On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:17:03PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > Ben Barrett wrote: > > > My litte old webserver (previous workstation, an AMD K6-2 350 w/ SCSI) > > has now been running for over one year solid; > > We should get some cheezy lapel pins printed up and give one out when > somebody has a year of uptime. Cory has a system that didn't go down > in the windstorm of 2/2002. (Is that box still up, Cory?)
I had a few systems that were still going. I've rebooted most of them though. One system a p75/48mb had over a year of uptime before I took it down to upgrade it to an amd k6-233/96mb. I'm going to take it down again to bump it up to 256mb or so. I'm asking it to do more and more work so got to keep it happy. Also this system was going for over 300 days then it had some dma errors and automatically turned dma off. I decided to reboot it and see if any problems persisted. DMA is back on with no problems so far. (logcheck is cool.) > > PS - Anyone else have pride in their uptimes? > > I do, but I try to keep it under control. My longest-running box > right now is the OpenBSD firewall at 348 days. Having reached over a year with workstation class boxes I no longer am so concerned about it. I get more joy just knowing that these machines just run and run and run as long as the hardware is good. If the motherboard melts, I can take the harddrive out and put it in another system. If the harddrive melts I can replace it and restore from backuppc in under an hour. If the whole system falls into a black hole, I can restore from backuppc to another system which will then take on the identity of that machine (brain transplant). This reason alone is enough to run *nix over windows. Cory _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
