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Date:      Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:06:16 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
Cc:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Record uptime for a FreeBSD system?
Message-ID:  <20011209170616.F83634@monorchid.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011208223426.D76137@seven.alameda.net>
References:  <054901c18073$e1001d40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011209162607.B83634@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011208223426.D76137@seven.alameda.net>

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On Saturday,  8 December 2001 at 22:34:26 -0800, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 04:26:07PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Sunday,  9 December 2001 at  6:39:26 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>>> I was just wondering:  What is the highest uptime anyone has ever seen on a
>>> FreeBSD system?  I assume it is several years, but what's the longest time
>>> that anyone has actually verified (by looking at system status or some other
>>> report that actually spells out the uptime, and marking it down for
>>> posterity)?
>>>
>>> I had my NT and FreeBSD systems running very close for a while, but then a
>>> persistent bug in the NT network driver (at least I think that's where it
>>> is) gave me a blue screen on that system.  FreeBSD is still running nicely.
>>> It has only been ten days, though, which isn't a very long time for a
>>> server.
>>
>> The highest I've seen is:
>>
>> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 00:53:56 -0800
>> From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
>>
>> DNS root /root # uptime
>>  2:11AM  up 1128 days, 15:15, 2 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.02, 0.01
>> DNS root /root # uname -a
>> FreeBSD DNS.Lamb.net 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Aug  7 12:17:56 PDT 1997     root@DNS.Lamb.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/DNS  i386
>>
>> That means the system must have been booted round 15 October 1998.
>> The message was only 2 weeks ago.  Ulf, is it still up?
>>
>> Greg
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> Nope, I took it a few days after that email down to switch the UPS.

There doesn't seem to have been too much wrong with the old one :-)

Greg
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