OS uptimes

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Mon Jul 7 00:01:00 2003

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Jay West wrote:

> A few posts back there was something about a sun box staying up six months?
> Humm which release of Solaris was it that 'fixed' a documented 30,000 bugs?
> There's a saying about wherever you see one cockroach there is 1000 more
> hidden... *grin*
>
> Anyways... that got me thinking so I had to check. I popped into one of our
> FreeBSD web servers. It hosts a fair number of high volume sites
> (stevewinwood.com, kellerwilliams.net, and some stringcheeseincident support
> sites)... the current uptime is.... 5:43PM up 353 days
>
> yeahhhhh baby!

% uptime
 9:33PM up 418 days, 10:46, 10 users, load averages: 0.58, 0.54, 0.50

It's a NetBSD box I've got co-lo'ed. It would've been more like 565
days, except that the hosting ISP moved their operations across town
in May of 2002.

-brian.
Received on Mon Jul 07 2003 - 00:01:00 BST