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#1 2008-02-25 15:51:50

FUF
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What's your uptime? :)

Hi!

People use ArchLinux on servers, workstations. Just curious how many people are keeping their uptime as long as possible? wink Do you have personal records?

For example, uptime on my desktop machine now:

18:44:53 up 3 days, 22:05,  1 user,  load average: 0.68, 0.72, 0.73

And I'm keeping it until something will go wrong or serious updates will be available. And my record is 40 days... but on Windows XP big_smile

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#2 2008-02-25 16:22:28

Arkane
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

My XP never lasted more than 3 days --'.

As for the rest, I'm a power-off-no-standby evangelist, so since I don't use my computer as a server I simply turn it off as often as possible. Kinda disappointing, actually...


I'm ready to compete on startup/shutdown times though. (Well, if I'm not too lazy to compile yet another kernel.)


What does not kill you will hurt a lot.

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#3 2008-02-25 16:23:18

gothmog.todi
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

17:22:26 up 12 days, 22:20,  1 user,  load average: 0.14, 0.18, 0.38

on my laptop (with s2disk of course wink)

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#4 2008-02-25 17:47:47

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Re: What's your uptime? :)

I turn my computer off every night, it's a waste of power to me.  I used to keep it on when I ran f@h, but since I've reinstalled I have yet to set it back up.

Why do some of you keep your workstations on for days at a time?

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#5 2008-02-25 18:19:27

calef13
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

top - 18:18:46 up 29 days,  7:59,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

From my home server, I reboot it fairly regularly though, that's the longest it's ever been.

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#6 2008-02-25 19:51:57

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Re: What's your uptime? :)

From my arch router.. dont rememer why I even rebooted it last time..
21:39:16 up 14 days, 24 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.78, 0.60, 0.64

btw, does these load numbers mean its very busy?

Last edited by daf666 (2008-02-25 19:53:44)

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#7 2008-02-25 21:19:19

quad3d@work
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

Arch64 server
15:18:03 up 14 days, 18:08,  1 user,  load average: 3.29, 3.46, 3.42

Arch32 server
15:18:05 up 11 days, 22:06,  1 user,  load average: 4.00, 4.03, 4.00

Job workstation
15:18:13 up 10 days,  5:44,  0 users,  load average: 2.56, 2.62, 2.68



Not Arch.... but one of the longest uptime I've seen. Yup! I rebooted that baby!
http://linuxmonkey.net/images/computer/ … 93days.jpg <== 793 days! (Open another tab for it. I disabled hotlink for image files.)

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#8 2008-02-26 00:15:56

crouse
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

crouse]$ uptime
17:51:08  up 96 days, 18:36,  1 user,  load average: 1.02, 0.79, 0.69

That's not an Arch system though wink

My Arch systems usually have less than 7 days uptime.

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#9 2008-02-26 00:26:32

Allan
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

> uptime
10:21:43 up 27 min,  0 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.15, 0.17

...and I have had breakfast since I got to work and booted my laptop.  Don't understand 0 users though. I'm quite sure I have logged in!

My server has about 6 days because of a power supply issue.

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#10 2008-02-26 00:43:43

pyther
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

Desktop w/ Standby (suspend-2-ram)

 19:42:07 up 8 days,  4:59,  0 users,  load average: 0.79, 0.88, 0.97

Server

 19:40:15 up 16 days, 20:25,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00

(I think I crashed it tongue)


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#11 2008-02-26 01:50:41

Sole
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

On laptop smile
20:47:18 up 15 days, 10:53,  1 user,  load average: 0.20, 0.18, 0.18

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#12 2008-02-26 02:37:21

Fatsobob
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

Since right now I do not have a need to leave my server on, it is at like 2 days and my laptop turns off nightly. Before I had an uptime of about 30 days before I updated the kernel and rebooted.

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#13 2008-02-26 06:53:31

jbromley
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

Allan wrote:

...and I have had breakfast since I got to work and booted my laptop.  Don't understand 0 users though. I'm quite sure I have logged in!

Are you logged into X or a console? If X, what login manager are you using? I once had a problem with slim where it wouldn't register my X sessions so I always saw "0 users" unless I logged on in a console. Having slim run sessreg solved that problem.

Anyway,

$ uptime
 22:48:02 up 11 days,  8:36,  2 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.15, 0.15

I admit when I'm not actually using the machine I suspend to RAM. That way I can be up and running in a couple of seconds.

j

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#14 2008-02-26 07:04:48

Allan
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

jbromley wrote:
Allan wrote:

...and I have had breakfast since I got to work and booted my laptop.  Don't understand 0 users though. I'm quite sure I have logged in!

Are you logged into X or a console? If X, what login manager are you using? I once had a problem with slim where it wouldn't register my X sessions so I always saw "0 users" unless I logged on in a console. Having slim run sessreg solved that problem.

Yes, I logged into X using slim... Don't think it is worth fixing though.

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#15 2008-02-26 13:48:23

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Re: What's your uptime? :)

08:47:52 up 11 min,  5 users,  load average: 0.84, 1.06, 0.99

yay laptops.

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#16 2008-02-26 14:10:44

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Re: What's your uptime? :)

The Arch machine:

15:11:15 up 38 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.10, 0.10, 0.09

The other machines (more interesting smile ):

15:09:34 up 118 days, 23:20,  1 user,  load average: 0.03, 0.15, 0.08
15:10:03 up 1049 days,  5:56,  1 user,  load average: 0.39, 0.13, 0.09

want a modular and tweaked KDE for arch? try kdemod

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#17 2008-02-26 17:27:57

Condex
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

funkyou wrote:

The Arch machine:

15:10:03 up 1049 days,  5:56,  1 user,  load average: 0.39, 0.13, 0.09

OMG, 1049 days xDDDD And I was proud of the 93 day record on my home server xDDDDD

My times:
This box:

 18:21:25 up  6:51,  1 user,  load average: 1.45, 1.74, 1.75

Shut down every day, 5 fans running inside make too much noise and I can't sleep xDDD

Home server(Gentoo):

GateWay ~ $ uptime
 19:18:20 up 2 days,  6:02,  1 user,  load average: 0.99, 0.98, 0.99

Power failure last sunday(February 24, 2008) and no UPS, at that time uptime was 64 days sad

Cheers!!


« Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero. »

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#18 2008-02-26 17:47:18

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Re: What's your uptime? :)

Allan wrote:

Yes, I logged into X using slim... Don't think it is worth fixing though.

Add the following to your slim.conf:

# Commands executed when starting and exiting a session.
# They can be used for registering a X11 session with
# sessreg. You can use the %user variable
#
sessionstart_cmd        /usr/bin/sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY %user
sessionstop_cmd         /usr/bin/sessreg -d -l $DISPLAY %user

If you have a new ATI video card and you're using the proprietary drivers, the ATI powersave script won't work if you don't have your X session registered. If you've got a laptop this is a big deal. For me, it's the difference between 2 hours and 3 hours 45 minutes on battery.

Regards,
j

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#19 2008-02-26 20:09:10

stavrosg
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

Bragging about one's uptime is so... oh well, nevermind tongue
And yes, keeping one's computer on just for the sake of uptime is a waste of power and should be avoided imho.

There can be a few reasons for letting it on though

Aaron wrote:

Why do some of you keep your workstations on for days at a time?

Some people do not have a second machine to act as a server / downloader so they keep their workstation on to finish the odd torrent or such.
Or maybe they were working on something that requires too much open files or programs so opening a gazilion things when you power it on the next morning is too tedious to worth the extra electricity bill.

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#20 2008-02-26 21:47:52

sevenfourk
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

Arch machine (desktop)

23:42:45 up 5 days,  2:37,  1 user,  load average: 1.14, 0.59, 0.50

of course i'm not a true example but... powered off machine is a dead one smile


No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it.

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#21 2008-02-26 23:05:55

Pick2
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

My 12 blade 24 core Linux folding farm:

 16:56:44 up 86 days, 11:44,  0 users,  load average: 2.96, 3.03, 3.01
 16:34:50 up 9 days, 16:56,  0 users,  load average: 3.20, 3.18, 3.09
 17:03:40 up 85 days, 21:45,  0 users,  load average: 3.13, 3.02, 2.99
 16:56:57 up 9 days, 22:08,  0 users,  load average: 2.56, 2.85, 2.91
 17:02:47 up 85 days, 21:33,  0 users,  load average: 3.38, 3.09, 3.02
 16:58:58 up 85 days, 21:34,  0 users,  load average: 2.91, 3.11, 3.08
 16:59:39 up 20 days, 19:05,  0 users,  load average: 3.30, 3.18, 3.10
 17:04:48 up 85 days, 21:36,  1 user,  load average: 3.03, 3.00, 3.02
 17:00:02 up 20 days, 19:07,  0 users,  load average: 3.55, 3.22, 3.10
 16:59:17 up 9 days, 22:10,  0 users,  load average: 3.16, 3.12, 3.09
 17:02:41 up 38 days, 22:53,  0 users,  load average: 3.07, 3.06, 3.08
 16:58:43 up 9 days, 21:55,  0 users,  load average: 3.00, 3.07, 3.09

I had a power outage 9 days ago , a dust bunny hunt 20 and 38 days ago , and I'm about due for more Bunnies  smile
Sorry , no arch linux in the bunch. ( I just never got it to fly )


Just Folded Space From Arrakis

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#22 2008-02-26 23:18:02

fivre
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

17:16:15 up 19:38,  4 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.01, 0.00

Damn power outage yesterday.

Was 47 days.

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#23 2008-02-26 23:30:45

quad3d@work
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

I see a lot of people gets power outage... you guys don't use UPS?

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#24 2008-02-27 01:49:39

jb
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

Well, the last time I had to shut down was for the local root exploit.

Then this happened today.


...

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#25 2008-02-27 03:40:12

Pick2
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From: Illinois
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Re: What's your uptime? :)

UPS,  Why yes , I just don't have enough to go around  sad
I need to pull a few of my 9 Macs and plug in the other 4 Blades smile
Mac Mini and Pismo:

21:38  up 28 days, 19:22, 9 users, load averages: 1.02 1.15 1.10
 9:40PM  up 42 days, 23:11, 1 user, load averages: 1.12, 1.02, 1.01

Just Folded Space From Arrakis

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