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Date:      Sat, 8 Dec 2001 22:50:07 -0800
From:      Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Record uptime for a FreeBSD system?
Message-ID:  <20011208225007.E76137@seven.alameda.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011209170616.F83634@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 05:06:16PM %2B1030
References:  <054901c18073$e1001d40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011209162607.B83634@monorchid.lemis.com> <20011208223426.D76137@seven.alameda.net> <20011209170616.F83634@monorchid.lemis.com>

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On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 05:06:16PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 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
> --
> See complete headers for address and phone numbers

Wasn't. But I swapped out the Matrix 3k against a Matrix 5K.

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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