1 Year And Counting Hehe - Wirral-Wikiwirral

Just been fiddling about in one of my servers and found out that it has been online for an entire year today haha!

Probably would have been almost 2 years but for a software update needing a reboot last year hehe.

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top - 06:17:29 up 365 days, 6:16, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 53 total, 1 running, 51 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.9% id, 0.3% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.5% si
Mem: 256064k total, 163252k used, 92812k free, 33640k buffers
Swap: 522104k total, 44792k used, 477312k free, 17200k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

Groovy baby! All hail ye Linux lol, its running Fedora! Not the best OS to run on a long-uptime enviroment but still!

Tis a lil Dell PowerEdge Pentium III 933Mhz with 256MB RAM and a 9GB SCSI btw haha probably about 8 years old!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH

wow that went well over my head! mind u thats not hard....

happy birthday mattys server lol

I wish i was you!

aww happy birthday server... ax125, wot u mean by that dude ???

Probably that he had servers that didnt crash lol

Fedora rocks....

Happy birthday Fella!!!

OMG, and I actually thought having my laptop on for a few days without rebooting was cool!

Well just noticed this thread whilst looking for something and thought I would check it again... still aiming for 2 years, next milestone will be 1.5 yrs though:

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top - 21:30:07 up 484 days, 22:29, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 76 total, 1 running, 74 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.4% id, 0.3% wa, 0.3% hi, 1.3% si
Mem: 256064k total, 218696k used, 37368k free, 33732k buffers
Swap: 522104k total, 20272k used, 501832k free, 49404k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
16781 root 17 0 2832 904 1620 R 0.7 0.4 0:00.07 top
1 root 16 0 2808 104 1320 S 0.0 0.0 3:08.51 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.15 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.31 events/0

Tis a good job it's only serving streaming servers lol.

Well... after 8 years of solid service, this server, along with its two brothers (all three are Dell PowerEdge 1550, PIII 933Mhz, 256MB, 9GB SCSI's running Fedora) is going to be retired and replaced before the end of 2008. The only reason for this is age and due to the new servers being more energy efficient. And I for one will be sad to see them go, ive long been a believer in "don't try and fix something that isnt broken" but the older it gets, the more likely it is to break!

Although it still has some clients on it, I will probably need it removed from the rack next week to make space, so it might not hit 2 years although ill try and hold out lol!

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[root@sbp root]# uptime
21:28:39 up 723 days, 2:33, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[root@sbp root]# top
top - 21:29:12 up 723 days, 2:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Mem: 256064k total, 45164k used, 210900k free, 12096k buffers
Swap: 522104k total, 30252k used, 491852k free, 8920k cached

Who says Dell's arnt reliable haha!! I have had a fair few modern Chenbro's and SuperMicro's need replacing over the years, whilst these have been working sweet as a dream, and they don't even have APC's on them!!

We have a few Dells that are used as remote access servers and I recon some have been running non stop for 3-4years now

Main machines we use are Sun Servers - had a few Ent 6500's last over 12 months, though is generally discs that fail first due to how much use they get....

Oooooo Sun kit, very nice! Then again, I guess that type of stuff is just standard issue at enterprise level!!

Im replacing them with Dell PowerEdge R300's which should be much more efficient, but really I wanted to get some running the ultra energy efficient Intel Atom, I am rather surprised they don't do them as yet!! In this day and age of high energy prices, they would be a great option imho.

Originally Posted by MattLFC

Oooooo Sun kit, very nice! Then again, I guess that type of stuff is just standard issue at enterprise level!!

Not even enterprise level any more mate. I saw a cracking little sun sparc go for £31 on Ebay the other day.

is there a way of finding out how long my pc has been on for?