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Uptime Championships - Current champion: Bloom with a router at 965 days.

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Uptime Championships - Current champion: Bloom with a router at 965 days.

#1 Post by donald »

I have a media server in my rack that has to be retired, it has provided years of service and reliability and has endured years of abuse but now the fans are failing, it's out of space, and we can hear the remaining 2 fans left working whining up to compensate for the heat. It's being migrated but I looked at its uptime and thought it was impressive but I can't be the only person tracking and proud of longevity... so post a system uptime!

That server:
donald@host:~$ uptime
06:23:05 up 282 days, 19:27, 5 users, load average: 1.10, 1.06, 1.05

Current desktop:
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06:24:25 up 3 days, 12:40, 4 users, load average: 1.48, 1.48, 1.45

My longest uptime for any server in my career was 7 years.
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Re: Uptime Championships

#2 Post by Hallvor »

Raspberry Pi 1, Model B

hallvor@rpi0-20200831:~$ uptime
11:00:33 up 25 days, 1:17, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.06, 0.01

The power went out 25 days ago, but I had a few months of uptime before that.


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#3 Post by Bloom »

My uptime for my desktop system:
14:13:03 up 27 days, 4:52, 1 user, load average: 1,26, 1,30, 1,47
and for my LizardFS metadata server:
14:13:43 up 451 days, 17:12, 0 users, load average: 1,11, 1,12, 1,10

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#4 Post by CwF »

I've posted some decent uptimes before...I think I've got a few years a few times and was indeed proud. I've changed my mind! I try to enforce a 'courtesy reboot' every so often, months instead of years. I might even air it out a bit since I'm in a dirty dusty environment. Formerly at high altitudes, power supplies and spinning drives don't cool well.

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$ uptime
 07:42:50 up 45 days, 18:34,  1 user,  load average: 2.61, 2.48, 2.39

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#5 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

I had occasion to reboot one of my dhcp/dns servers a couple of weeks ago (adding more disk for it's nighttime backup staging server duties).
It had been up for 625 days.
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#6 Post by sunrat »

My current uptime usually depends on how often I reboot to Windows to play RDR2. :mrgreen:
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#7 Post by cds60601 »

UPDATED: Current home server image
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#8 Post by Marie SWE »

I have just made a Timeshift in this one.. so a few hours Debian 10
My LMDE computer 284 days 5hours 29Minutes
My win7Pro tv/media computer 123days 2hours 15minutes
My server is offline do to upgrade.. but it usually is always on.

Edit, i bring a printscreen to the table
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#9 Post by donald »

Bloom wrote: 2021-07-29 12:14 14:13:43 up 451 days, 17:12, 0 users, load average: 1,11, 1,12, 1,10

Impressive!
Marie SWE wrote: 2021-08-01 01:12 I have just made a Timeshift in this one.. so a few hours Debian 10
My LMDE computer 284 days 5hours 29Minutes
My win7Pro tv/media computer 123days 2hours 15minutes
My server is offline do to upgrade.. but it usually is always on.

Edit, i bring a printscreen to the table
Skärmbild_2021-08-01_03-19-47.png :D
I like the inxi tool, never used it before. You beat me by 2 days haha.

Not a bad idea with the screen captures to verify the stated uptimes.
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#10 Post by arzgi »

It is easy to get false results from uptime.

I did it the first time by accident, the bios battery of my pc had died, I used ntpdate-debian to get right time. After that uptime was many years.

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#11 Post by donald »

arzgi wrote: 2021-08-01 12:29 It is easy to get false results from uptime.

I did it the first time by accident, the bios battery of my pc had died, I used ntpdate-debian to get right time. After that uptime was many years.
I was wondering when someone would point that out :lol:, for now lets use the honor system and 'inxi -Fxz' with a screencap for the champion.

Currently reigning: Bloom.
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#12 Post by Marie SWE »

donald wrote: 2021-08-01 03:12
Marie SWE wrote: 2021-08-01 01:12 I have just made a Timeshift in this one.. so a few hours Debian 10
My LMDE computer 284 days 5hours 29Minutes
My win7Pro tv/media computer 123days 2hours 15minutes
My server is offline do to upgrade.. but it usually is always on.

Edit, i bring a printscreen to the table
Skärmbild_2021-08-01_03-19-47.png :D
I like the inxi tool, never used it before. You beat me by 2 days haha.

Not a bad idea with the screen captures to verify the stated uptimes.
When I spent a lot of time on linuxmint.com forums in 2018, they always asked for a print from inxi.. no matter what you asked about, so that's the way I came in contact with that program.
It gives a pretty okay overview of the hardware, kernel and so on.. perfect if someone need help and need to describe hardware and so.

:wink: 2 days is nothing, we are equal side by side when dealing with so many days. :mrgreen:
I can't compete against those who have servers.. But it is a laptop, so I can see it a bit as I lead the laptop league. :lol: hahaha :lol:
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#13 Post by donald »

I admit to cheating using necromancy and non server hardware :). This is from one of a group of internal switches:
Product Information HPE XXXXXXXX Switch Software Version Release XXXXXXXXX

Running Time: 672 days 17 hours 12 minutes 38 seconds
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#14 Post by argentwolf »

Huh, here perspective wins. Curious, why doesn't this thread simply expose 'risky defective admins' as being those with the highest system up-times, i.e., I thought kernel security updates required a reboot, and isn't there a security water mark properly set by such (e.g., https://security-tracker.debian.org/tra ... -2020-3702) with every release of Debian?
While participation ribbons look, feel good, cool, I think the metals should go to those who come the closest to the exact number of days set by said water mark. Yes?
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#15 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

Horses for courses.
In my case, the squeeze server is isolated on an internal network, continues to perform it's duties quietly and isn't broken, so isn't getting upgraded until there are some benefits to doing so.
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#16 Post by donald »

argentwolf wrote: 2021-11-25 15:33 Huh, here perspective wins. Curious, why doesn't this thread simply expose 'risky defective admins' as being those with the highest system up-times, i.e., I thought kernel security updates required a reboot, and isn't there a security water mark properly set by such (e.g., https://security-tracker.debian.org/tra ... -2020-3702) with every release of Debian?
While participation ribbons look, feel good, cool, I think the metals should go to those who come the closest to the exact number of days set by said water mark. Yes?

You are correct but I dont think the responses in this thread are for front end servers, likely backend, cluster components, or database servers. Servers deep entrenched with little exposure can and do run for years with a good firewall under an attentive administrator.
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#17 Post by argentwolf »

dilberts_left_nut wrote: 2021-11-26 04:51 Horses for courses.
In my case, the squeeze server is isolated on an internal network, continues to perform it's duties quietly and isn't broken, so isn't getting upgraded until there are some benefits to doing so.
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#18 Post by argentwolf »

donald wrote: 2021-11-26 06:37 You are correct but I dont think the responses in this thread are for front end servers, likely backend, cluster components, or database servers. Servers deep entrenched with little exposure can and do run for years with a good firewall under an attentive administrator.
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#19 Post by argentwolf »

"...with great power there must also come -- great responsibility!"

When we look out upon the binary realm laid across our plane[t] and its apparent lack of 'promised containment' in securing information, it becomes blatantly obvious many 'admins' must NOT fully appreciate a role (especially within the largest of corporations (e.g., giant tech) with the greatest resources (i.e., $$)) and their responsibility in assuring our 4A protections which have all but been forgotten and tragically violated in order to liberally apply some ever changing and expected 'convenience' for the collective. We've got to again learn to say NO!
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#20 Post by argentwolf »

Amazing! Here's just one example how great our industry 'sncks' at securing information and why the 'Log4j vulnerability' is disastrous on a scale unimagined...a link to their full report is at the end of the article.

"Positive Technologies: Cybercriminals Can Penetrate 93% of Local Company Networks, and Trigger 71% of Events Deemed ‘Unacceptable’ For Their Businesses"
https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/about/ ... usinesses/
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