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.