[SkiBikeSki]

As of Sunday morning, Feb. 9, who has the highest uptime? For those who don't know, uptime is the amount of time since your last restart or shutdown. Sleeping and logging out do not effect uptime.

One can find their uptime simply by typing "uptime" in the Terminal app, or by using the "Vanity" dockling which displays it as an icon in the dock.
Also anyone who is, sadly, using a Windows machine can also participate. On Win2k/XP machine once can find the status of a network connection, and more-or-less the time that connection is up is equall to the uptime of the system. So just right-click on network places, get properties, and double click on LAN or Ethernet or whatever.

The reason I mentioned the date, Feb. 9, is that those who post a many days from now will have an unfair advantage. By forcing it to be as of now, I have leveled the playing field.

Please vote and then post the exact uptime.

[SkiBikeSki]

My uptime is 30 days, 6 hours, and 25 minutes. Basically that is how long ago I installed 10.2.3, since then I have never had to restart.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Shouldn't this thread be called who is the most dateless loser?

[Jerommeke]

shutdown every night.

[AJ]

Yeah, stability is great, and uptimes are nice, but it ain't proportional to anything else ya know!

AJ

[xtal]

Originally posted by AJ:
Yeah, stability is great, and uptimes are nice, but it ain't proportional to anything else ya know!

Phew, then my 17 hours mean the opposite of what I thought...

[fhoubi]

Ups, skip that 50+ uptime (actually it was 73 days). That was on 10.1.3.

Currently it is 2 hours, due to a (horrible late) upgrade to Jaguar + 10.2.3, after a battery failure.

ibook june 2002 700 combo 12"

[Anand]

I run a center with 50+ machines. The machine with the longest uptime, is a group eMac that is used by 6-8 people. This machine is running 10.2.1 and has an uptime of over 100 days. Most other machines are 40-50 day range. My personal machine is only 10-15 days - I like to tinker with it!

[dampeoples]

8 days, 19:53

[MrBS]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
Shouldn't this thread be called who is the most dateless loser?

Originally posted by Jerommeke:
shutdown every night.

Well I think you win then.

~BS

[drmcnutt]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
Shouldn't this thread be called who is the most dateless loser?

DRM

[EmAn]

38 days

[sworthy]

Originally posted by MrBS:
Well I think you win then.

~BS

That's f****ing hilarious!



11 days for me...

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by Jerommeke:
shutdown every night.

Actually, there isn't really much need to do this any more -- I just put my G4 to sleep, and wake it up in the morning to continue where I left off

[warpmoon]

Since you said that people with Windows machines could participate, I suppose my mac running Debian (Linux) can as well

Here's what it *was* yesterday, just before I compiled a new kernel (2.4.18) and rebooted:

[lilith:~] [17:57] root# date
Mon Feb 10 17:57:23 CET 2003
[lilith:~] [17:57] root# uptime
17:57:27 up 166 days, 5:54, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

It's an old headless beige G3@266 MHz, serving files, mail and webpages while being a router

*Sheds a tear*

Oh well, now I can start counting days from scratch again, yay...

[gorickey]

Well, on a system/machine that you want a lot of uptime on...that being a Mac OS X Server, the best it can do since upgrading to 10.2.3 on December 19, 2002 has been 9 days...yeah, that's right...it sucks and crashes like it's going out of style! However, before that it could consistently go a month before we manually restarted.

[MasterBeta]

My uptime is 8 years 4 months 2 weeks and 1 day and 1/2 hours and 1/4 seconds as of 1/4 seconds ago.

Bd

[SkiBikeSki]

Warpmoon, 166 days! Ding Ding Ding!!! I think we have a winner. Keep it mind that at the time this topic was started it had 165 days. But it is still way ahead of any other reports.

[Zadian]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
Actually, there isn't really much need to do this any more

I normaly shut my mac down every night - that saves energy.

[dawho9]

We recently had to move our servers at work due to construction. Our MacOSx .1 apache web server had update of 267 days, a few minutes and a few second.

It was really sad to have to down the server and move it to another location.

However, now that its in its new location, I will start toward a year again.

dw9

[icruise]

Originally posted by Zadian:
I normaly shut my mac down every night - that saves energy.

Do you unplug your VCR every night too?

[Zadian]

Originally posted by Icruise:
Do you unplug your VCR every night too?

I don't have a VCR - and yes, in unplug my TV. There are many devices that consume 10-20 W while in standby and most of them can be unpluged.

[Mediaman_12]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
Actually, there isn't really much need to do this any more -- I just put my G4 to sleep, and wake it up in the morning to continue where I left off

I used to do this with my old G4, but I upgraded to a Quicksilver. Now I have to shutdown because all the blinkin lights would keep me awake.

[SkiBikeSki]

I've been out of it for a couple days. I guess that the update to 10.2.4 will hurt a lot of our uptimes. I wish that "sudo shutdown now" still worked for me; it hasn't worked right since the upgrade to 10.2. And besides, I would want to risk doing that will an apple update. I do it more for stuff like thirdy party control panels and some applications that insist on a restart.

I'm amazed to hear about that 267 days, dawho9. But I since that isn't really a CPU you own, I think it shouldn't count, but I'm not rigid about that. After all it's a server and always under a lot of stress and it is a Mac!

I wonder if I should wait until i have to restart to get 10.2.4, or just do it now?

[docholiday]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
Actually, there isn't really much need to do this any more -- I just put my G4 to sleep, and wake it up in the morning to continue where I left off

I do the same thing... only restart when upgrading the OS or when I'm not gonna be home for a long time.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
I used to do this with my old G4, but I upgraded to a Quicksilver. Now I have to shutdown because all the blinkin lights would keep me awake.

I just close my eyes.

Current uptime for me:
8:27PM up 20 days, 6 mins

I'm trying to decide if I want to update to 10.2.4 or not, as 10.2.3 is working pretty nicely for me. Do I need the update or is this one of those "if it ain't broke don't fix it" cases...

[11011001]

1:04AM up 2 days, 1:32, 2 users, load averages: 1.05, 1.29, 1.30

right now.. cus I did the 10.2.4 update

the ssh server at my uni has this uptime:
1:05am up 109 day(s), 10:18, 13 users, load average: 0.12, 0.08, 0.07

with OS 9 my uptime was about a day on average... it was horrible. I was constantly restarting, especially when programming (you know what I mean, memory leaks.. God!!)

[fireside]

i like to change themes a lot so mine's pretty crappy.

[Vanquish]

1:00PM up 1 day, 19:29, 3 users, load averages: 0.30, 0.42, 0.51

damn 10.2.4 update ! ah well, I was around 22 days I think.

[Cadaver]

My GHz TiBook has been up since 10.2.4 was installed (2 days, 22:29 hrs).

My Quicksilver DP800 file/print server has been up around 45 days, ever since it was restarted after the 10.2.3 update. I haven't yet updated it to 10.2.4 since it's working fine as-is and just sits and serves up files & printers.

What usually gets me is a power failure or a software installation that forces a reboot, not system crashes.

Wife's iBook was about 22 days until she let the battery run down to zero...

[AJ]

You guys still going on about uptime

[Brass]

A few of the Solaris machines here have been up since the last power failure:

up 361 day(s), 5:53

The chances of another power failure this week are looking good!!!

[spiky_dog]

Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
I used to do this with my old G4, but I upgraded to a Quicksilver. Now I have to shutdown because all the blinkin lights would keep me awake.

i lean a magazine against the case and against my lcds (aGh, multiple pulsing lights are annoying especially for the neurotic like me) before nodding off.

my best uptime is (on my personal webserver):

% uptime
10:06PM up 119 days, 23:49, 2 users, load averages: 0.55, 0.17, 0.08

(as of 2/16 -- you do the math)

that 119 days is incidentally when i set it up with os x.

[absmiths]

It's pretty sad when people choose not to apply an update because they don't want their uptime to be reset.

[SkiBikeSki]

Originally posted by absmiths:
It's pretty sad when people choose not to apply an update because they don't want their uptime to be reset.

It's a pride thing. Finally Macintosh users have an ultra-stable OS that they can be very proud of. The best uptime I've heard of for WinXP has been 25 days, and then a system crash. Better luck next time Microsoft... ... not!

Before I was just sorta proud that OS 9 was easier to use that Win98. Now with OS X, the MacOS is almost perfect. But I'm sure Apple will show me how not perfect it is by adding some awesome features in 10.3 or 11.

[sniffer]

20+ days uptime is pretty awesome on a system used for daily desktop tasks. I've had about 25 days or something while doing all kind of wierd stuff with my system. Like e.g. making and installing new system icons and checking out all kind of software. I had to restart because of system upgrade. This was back in 10.1.x days with my old iMac.
Currently on my iBook I have:

Code:
2:59PM  up 9 days, 22:38, 2 users, load averages: 0.41, 0.41, 0.28

Last reboot was because of the 10.2.4 upgrade. I never turn off my iBook. I might get some nice uptimes with 10.2.4 since it have so far given me the impression of being very stable. My XP box at work have about one week or so in uptime at best. Used basicly for mail, sensedesk and web surfing.

[eno]

Much more interesting, would be to compare load averages...

Mine: 3:11AM up 9 days, 16:12, 4 users, load averages: 1.43, 1.42, 1.01

This is on a dual-1.25 with a gig of RAM. So you can see I'm working it reasonably well, but not thrashing it...

What are the load averages out there?

[Anand]

This is from our lab eMac. The best, most stable machine in the building:


[apc3769:~] anand% uptime 1:30PM up 124 days, 5:07, 2 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.32, 0.23

[sek929]

I've been installing way to much sh!t lately to have a decent uptime, but lets just say the last time my computer froze and I needed to restart was with OS9...

I went about 50 days this winter vacation so I'll use that (stable power supply )

[gerbnl]

But the real recordholder afaik is a VMS system: 18 (yes: eightteen) years!

at least, that's what it says in this book. I ordered it about two years ago, but it's still advertised as free...

[Drakino]

On the 9th, my XP box under my desk had about 40-50 days of uptime. It's still going as well, since it dosen't do much. I use the MS RDC program to get into it from time to time.

My Cube that sits proudly on the top of the desk usually averages 20-30 days of uptime. I tend to poke at a few things I probably shouldn't, and crash it usually once a month. Or Apple releases a 10.2 update, then thats a gaurenteed reboot.

[Cadaver]

I have not rebooted my 1GHz TiBook since 10.2.4 was installed... 11 days ago now.
I put it to sleep, but I haven't rebooted since.

My Quicksilver DP800 is still going on the same boot since 10.2.3 was installed on it.

[fisherKing]

oops! thanx for the reminder.
i turned my 6100/60 on in 1995 and just realized i've forgotten to turn it off!

[Eddies in the aether]

Originally posted by SkiBikeSki:
As of Sunday morning, Feb. 9, who has the highest uptime? For those who don't know, uptime is the amount of time since your last restart or shutdown. Sleeping and logging out do not effect uptime.

I voted for 50+ days for a 266Mhz G3 which has been up for 62 days. However, my 667MHz PB Ti gets flaky after 10 days or so, requiring a reboot. Given the differnce in speed and usage I figure 6-10 days on the G3 is about the same as a day on the Ti PB.

[benb]

I tried to stay awake for 48 hours once, but failed at hour 46. Talk about a dissapointment. Who wants to brag about not sleeping for 2 hours shy of 2 days? Doesn't have as nice a ring as 'Once I didn't sleep for 2 days'.

[sniffer]

Originally posted by benb:
I tried to stay awake for 48 hours once, but failed at hour 46. Talk about a dissapointment. Who wants to brag about not sleeping for 2 hours shy of 2 days? Doesn't have as nice a ring as 'Once I didn't sleep for 2 days'.

Once I made it just barely over 72 hours being awake. Felt asleep in classroom in-front of the headmaster, then I knew the battle was over. Don't think I ever will try to do something like that again.

[kovacs]

My best uptime was 32 days on a lime ibook running 10.1.4...

[Anand]

So, do I get a prize for my uptime (see above)?

[Agasthya]

agasthya% uptime
11:54AM up 12:50, 2 users, load averages: 0.29, 0.30, 0.42

G4 crashed HARD last night, I couldn't launch any apps and everything gave me the spinning beachball. It was like a week before that.

[Anand]

I am sad to say that our emac, with over 130+ days of uptime was just restarted. The person wanted ical and the required software update required a restart. I hope 10.2.4 is just as stable on the eMac!