On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Austin Leeds wrote:
I'm going to try leaving my Pismo on (asleep at night) for as long
as I possibly can, just out of curiosity. I'll post in five day
intervals initially. Anybody else have some unbelievable uptime
stories?
In theory, since OS X's base OS is pretty leak-free, an OS X box will
stay up forever, so long as you close all applications and restart
them occasionally.
One of the longer recorded uptimes was a Novell Server that was walled
off accidentally:
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?
articleID=6505527>
Per Wikipedia, the longest current uptime is an OpenVMS server that's
been up for nearly 12 years, with a rumor of another one being up for
18 years.
<http://tinyurl.com/ydpjdu8>
VMS makes Unix look like a flighty Microsoft OS for stability.
I've had uptimes as high as ~100 days on my iMac at work, but usually
a system update or something else conspires to force a reboot.
At this moment it's 12 days.
current uptime champion in the office is our development Linux server:
john...@mortar:~> uptime
1:31pm up 521 days 6:01, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.10, 0.09
See also:
<http://xkcd.org/705/> :-)
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