This machine has been running for nearly 3 years *and* it has multiple users too? What manner of *black magic* is at work here?
A few hundred years ago and you would have been burned as a witch for something like this, but given the lack of computers back then I doubt any precedent has been set, so consider yourself lucky ;-)
The load average might possibly imply that you're giving this machine a fairly easy ride in its old age though - so the real question is: does it actually perform any useful function(s)? Hmm, I wonder if you could do a nix port to a fridge-freezer or something? Still, even that would need defrosting every so often, so I consider myself suitably impressed at your 4-figure achievement. Truly you are the geek's geek. Bravo! ...all assuming you weren't just a cheating b*st*rd and edited the uptime, of course ;-)
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Date: 2005-11-15 11:55 am (UTC)A few hundred years ago and you would have been burned as a witch for something like this, but given the lack of computers back then I doubt any precedent has been set, so consider yourself lucky ;-)
The load average might possibly imply that you're giving this machine a fairly easy ride in its old age though - so the real question is: does it actually perform any useful function(s)?
Hmm, I wonder if you could do a nix port to a fridge-freezer or something? Still, even that would need defrosting every so often, so I consider myself suitably impressed at your 4-figure achievement. Truly you are the geek's geek. Bravo!
...all assuming you weren't just a cheating b*st*rd and edited the uptime, of course ;-)
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Date: 2005-11-15 12:07 pm (UTC)Got two servers in a pair (solar and balor), doing NIS, DNS, sendmail, Big Brother (systems monitoring), licenses and a few other things.
They're legit uptimes. When they rebooted was when they were moved into that computer room.
Of course, it also means their patching is _way_ out of date, but they're pretty locked down too, so....
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Date: 2005-11-15 02:36 pm (UTC)4:01pm up 1004 day(s), 47 min(s), 5 users, load average: 0.04, 0.10, 0.12
balor[erolison]:[~]$ uptime
11:56am up 1004 day(s), 20:45, 1 user, load average: 1.15, 0.96, 1.02
Very interesting, a 5:1 user ratio - is there an alignment restriction as to who can log on?
solar[lskywalker]:[~]$ ssh balor
After all, it seems that the dark side is stronger! ;-)