You all are amateurs. I remember back in the day I had this VAX machine running VMS that was up for TEN YEARS!!!!!!!!!!! And don't even get me STARTED on the amount of uptime we used to get when we had to bang ROCKS together to get zeros and ones! Here's a hint, junior: the iPad is not the FIRST tablet! On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Dean E wrote: > > > On 7/14/2010 1:20 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: >> On Jul 14, 2010, at 13:00:06, Mike Miller wrote: >> >> >>> One is Western Digital and the other is Samsung. I was having the same >>> problem with either one. Check this out: >>> >>> $ uptime >>> 12:54:24 up 224 days, 23:59, 23 users, load average: 0.10, 0.12, 0.09 >>> >>> I really want to reboot this machine, but I'm always using it for some big >>> job. Probably within the next month or two I'll shut it down, upgrade >>> some components, install Ubuntu 10.04 and bring it back up. Then I can >>> test the file transfer speed again. >>> >> *cough* >> >> ecrist at puma:~-> uptime >> 1:15PM up 787 days, 3:17, 11 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.04, 0.07 >> >> It would have 1005 more days, but our data center where this box resides had a PDU failure which knocked out half the customers. You know who you are, data center. Oh, that's a FreeBSD box, so I don't suspects many on a LUG list to see numbers that big. :P >> >> Before you all jump on me for not having it updated, it's a FreeBSD 4.11 box on a private LAN running internal software. Rest assured this box is on it's way out in the next 6 months. >> >> Anyone beat that? >> --- >> Eric Crist >> > > Not *nix, but 919 days on Cisco: > > PlymouthSNLAN>show version > ......stuff snipped.... > PlymouthSNLAN uptime is 2 years, 27 weeks, 14 hours, 18 minutes > System returned to ROM by power-on > > This is an 1841 at a work site. > > I would expect others have much higher uptimes on Cisco though. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -Yaron --