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7:35 up 7 days, 9:03, 2 users, load averages: 1.97 1.36 1.23

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

At work, but of the 3 main severs here we have one running at an impressive 2months without dying, the other two have been up for 37hours and around 47minutes. Which isn't so good.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Sunday, 23 October 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

about 5 minutes.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 23 October 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

5 days.

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 23 October 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Damn bittorrent ratios.

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 23 October 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

15:28:43 up 1 day, 20:44, 5 users, load average: 0.27 0.17 0.07

2 months without dying isn't *that* impressive, is it? Unless you're running Windows, of course, in which case even if it doesn't crash you're looking at at least 1 reboot per month to install security patches.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Ours are back on after an electrical problem wherein everything in the house and office got zapped with 220. Surge protectors saved the computers, but we lost a TV, an intercom, several phones and lotsa lightbulbs. Now EVERYTHING is plugged into surge protectors, and I urge you all to do the same. Also, be careful when buying them. You get what you pay for—some are very lame, dispersing a mere 90 joules as compared to the 2600 of the surge protector that saved my computer. And THAT got fried. As a friend of mine said, "They throw themselves on the grenade."

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

27 hrs.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Unless you're running Windows, of course, in which case even if it doesn't crash you're looking at at least 1 reboot per month to install security patches.

winxp has been good to me, at least with the machine i'm using now. it never crashes. i had to reboot about a week ago for a software upgrade, but i leave this thing running most of the time and it performs beautifully.

― katrina vanden roffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

up 2 days, 22:49, 3 users, load averages: 0.69 0.63 0.62
It's so short because spotlight went mental the other night and I had to reboot. Stay away from Tiger, mac people.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

the one thing i miss is that cmd-opt-esc is now a system service i think rather than a kernel-level call? (nb: i haven't looked this up so could be totally wrong, but it seems like how it operates) also that the system doesn't always handle getthing thrown into swapidiocy as well as it should w/r/t this.

there should be a way to auto-kill everything but an underlying terminal that's more sanely hardwired in so a system freeze (or massive memory thrashing pseudo-freeze) won't require a full reboot.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

also i think therefore programs that're all "you need to reboot!" when they install or update usually actually DON'T and are just fucking with me. i mean, higher-level system processes might need restart, but did they rilly fuck with the kernel!?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I used to always keep my computer on for a few days straight. Recently I've been shutting it down every night at bedtime. It's getting a little temperamental these days, and rebooting seems to make it run better.

― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 23 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

i think therefore programs that're all "you need to reboot!" when they install or update usually actually DON'T and are just fucking with me.

You're probably right there - at least, I hope you are.

there should be a way to auto-kill everything but an underlying terminal that's more sanely hardwired in so a system freeze (or massive memory thrashing pseudo-freeze) won't require a full reboot.

Like the Magic System Request Keys in Linux?

(it's a set of keystrokes that are trapped at a very low level in the kernel, and let you do things like: unmount all disks, kill all processes without rebooting, kill all processes on the current terminal, or just log low-level information like a processor register dump)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

14:17 up 198 days, 19:11, 9 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.02

― Paul Eater (eater), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Those Magic System Request keys are exactly what's required -- but I don't think Apple can trap things at that level anymore, what with needing either USB or bluetooth drivers to be running to even hear the keyboards. In the old ADB days, you could shut a mac down with four keys that stopped it quicker than a BRS.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lowendmac.com/tech/power_on.shtml

― Forever, more time for hackers to try, Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Well, Linux manages to have the magic keystrokes and still handle USB keyboards - it's built into the common part of the keyboard driver.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

11:47 up 19 days, 17 mins, 2 users, load averages: 1.05 0.44 0.22
for the PowerBook, though probably 3/4 of that it was sleeping

about 2.5 days for the Win2k

― W i l l (common_person), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

19:51 up 16 days, 7:45, 2 users, load averages: 0.62 0.68 0.60

this is the powerbook. i tend to shut the iMac down because i don't see the point of the CRT sitting there using power (actually, that's an interesting question: how much power does a mac use when it's asleep? i'm assuming it's not comparable to the TV-on-standby thing.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 23 October 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I've had my (WinXP-based) computer on for about 20 hours and 19 minutes. It would've been longer, but my computer froze on me so I had to turn it off and turn it back on again.

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 23 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

that's not the kind of thing you're supposed to admit around mac fiends.

― katrina vanden roffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 October 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

hahahaha, busted.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 23 October 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

up 3 days, 19:38, 2 users, load averages: 0.79 0.74 0.75

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 24 October 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

that's not the kind of thing you're supposed to admit around mac fiends.
hahahaha, busted.

I don't give a damn, actually. Sure, it froze on me, but it's only because I did something I should've known better to have done, and actually it only involves Windows Media Player, which is the only thing on this system that will pitch a fit. Even with that, though, I'm not liable to want to switch over to a Mac-based system anytime in the foreseeable future. I will probably end up becoming a major metalhead before I become a Mac user.

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Is it more or less likely then losing your virginity?

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 24 October 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Actually, Williams, THAT is more likely than you getting a new schtick.

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

2 hours 53 minutes 5 seconds

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Monday, 24 October 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

Jon are you on ritalin lately? Stop being a wanker, duder.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

19 days?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 24 October 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

twoooooo weeks

― jw (ex machina), Monday, 24 October 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

OK, now I'm at the office - spot which of our machines don't have NTP set up correctly!

Our Lotus Notus server:
8:26am up 35 days, 2 min, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
(it was last taken down to move it around the building)

Our print server and sendmail server (used for spam filtering):
08:28:06 up 34 days, 23:52, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Our VPN virtual router:
8:29am up 34 days, 23:39, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

(as you can probably tell, about a month ago a thunderstorm gave us a glitch on one of the power circuits)

Our Sybase database server:
8:23am up 275 days, 22:07, 2 users, load average: 1.82, 1.83, 1.14
(spot which machine is on the proper surge-protected power ring)

The file server at our shop in Hull:
9:06am up 78 days, 17:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

The VPN virtual router at our other shop:
08:30:42 up 32 days, 15:50, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00
(it's much less powerful than any of the machines above, which is why just logging onto it is enough to produce measurable load)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 October 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

20 minutes.

I finally turned my Powerbook off before I went to Brighton. That had been on for several weeks. Since the last rehearsal at least.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 24 October 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

I usually keep it on for a couple of days at a time. Then I switch it off. My husband says it's better. I dunno, so I just turn it off for a single night and then restart the next day.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 24 October 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

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