[asterisk-users] uptime

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Hans Witvliet wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 09:01 +0000, Steve Howes wrote:
>> On 15 Feb 2011, at 03:39, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
>>> minipbx*CLI> show uptime
>>> System uptime: 41 years, 7 weeks, 6 days, 3 hours, 26 minutes, 46 seconds
>>> Last reload: 8 hours, 3 minutes, 51 seconds
>>
>> What's the highest current 'genuine' one on-list?..
>>
>> klein*CLI> core show uptime
>> System uptime: 2 years, 1 week, 4 days, 21 hours, 52 minutes
>> Last reload: 41 weeks, 6 days, 16 hours, 6 minutes, 39 seconds
>>
>>
>> That's the best I can come up with..
>>
> Got a good old sparc system (RedHat 6.4 for sparc) doing an imap server.
> Had a power dip, just before i got to 10 years up.
> Must be somewhere on the sparc mailing list archives.
> After that, i had to power-cycle it again to put it on the ups.

I used to wory about uptimes, etc. these days I'm not so concerend, 
however:

  $ uptime
   07:53:13 up 1231 days, 13:13,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

is my longest running box - it's a router and running my own embedded 
linux variant, and been facing the internet for all that time, routing GB 
of data daily...

No-doubt I'll now get a barrage of whinges from people telling me it's 
insecure because it's not been patched, etc. which seems to be the popular 
reason for people rebooting Linux servers, or just the MS mentality, 
however I've no plans to reboot it until it's retired - probably at the 
end of next year. It's one of a pair running HA and VRRP - and it's 
counterpart is a bit younger:

  $ uptime
   07:54:14 up 841 days, 10:59,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

I don't quite have the same uptime with my asterisk boxes -

  dsx$ uptime
   08:00:07 up 275 days, 16:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

that's in a busy little design office with 10 people.

Gordon