[dmxplosive]

what's your record uptime? i use the showoff widget (keeps your record uptime)

so far since i installed tiger, my mini's record is 7 days, 4:18

[C.J. Moof]

Not a client, but a server... OS X server 10.1, on an imac. The display failed about 8 months ago, but who cares?

[intranet:~] admin% uptime
3:49PM up 1319 days, 19:48, 4 users, load averages: 3.63, 4.18, 4.27

It got retired last week b/c it's purpose was consolidated into a newer machine, and I needed the data port in the server room for a new server. It was actually a bit sad to shelve this workhorse......

[Goldfinger]

A month or two.

[jasonsRX7]

Not counting servers, my record is an XP box for 248 days. That's pretty good for any Microsoft OS, server or workstation.

[Doofy]

About 18 months for a server running Linux (it'd be longer, but I moved the "machine room" elsewhere).
About a year for a Mac client running 10.2.8 (upgraded to Tiger).

[rickey939]

31+ days on my TiBook.

[mindwaves]

30+ days on my PowerMac...had to reboot yesterday to update Quicktime

[starman]

187 days.

[mdc]

about 30something days

[Obi Wan's Ghost]

I once lasted about 8 hours if semis count as uptime.

[Sage]

About a month – only rebooted for updates.

[turtle777]

What uptime are you talking about ?

-t

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by jasonsRX7

Not counting servers, my record is an XP box for 248 days. That's pretty good for any Microsoft OS, server or workstation.

Wow, you didn't patch your computer for almost a year?!

[JHromadka]

Is there anyway to find out how often your Mac is rebooted? I miss being able to type a command on the PC and having the dates of all reboots, time between reboots, average uptime, and uptime %.

[Sarc]

current uptime, 92 days.

[Lateralus]

I pulled around 70 days on my old G3 iBook back in the 10.1 days.

[Scifience]

2434 days on a Linux server. And counting.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by olePigeon

Wow, you didn't patch your computer for almost a year?!

Some computers aren't connected to the big bad world, and therefore don't need security patches every five minutes.

[andreas_g4]

About 72 hrs. This was around New Year's eve 2004/05.

[dmxplosive]

dang, there's some reliable systems out there. could you tell what type of system you have also when you post?

[dmxplosive]

Originally Posted by JHromadka

Is there anyway to find out how often your Mac is rebooted? I miss being able to type a command on the PC and having the dates of all reboots, time between reboots, average uptime, and uptime %.

what command are you talking about?

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by JHromadka

Is there anyway to find out how often your Mac is rebooted? I miss being able to type a command on the PC and having the dates of all reboots, time between reboots, average uptime, and uptime %.

This command will show you recent reboots (unfortunately not all of them):

Code:
last | grep \~

(that's a pipe after last, and a backslash and a tilde after the 'grep')

I had a Linux box up for 6 months or so once, it only went down because of a power outage.

[starman]

Originally Posted by Scifience

2434 days on a Linux server. And counting.

6+ years? I think it's time to upgrade that puppy

[davesimondotcom]

59 days, had to reboot for a patch...

[jasonsRX7]

Originally Posted by olePigeon

Wow, you didn't patch your computer for almost a year?!

Nope. It was the desktop I used when I worked for an ISP. I installed XP after it first came out, did whatever updates were available at the time, and left it up and running. I used it every day, too. Spyware wasn't as big of a deal then, and it never had any problems.

[agentz]

Current uptime on my iBook ~3 hours
Best uptime that I recall was about 85 days

[ghporter]

Three and a half hours. Oh. You're talking about computer uptime. That's different.....




We generally don't leave any computer on 24/7. The time for a Mac to boot is negligible and it uses zero electricity while it's off (versus using a little bit while sleeping-and I don't count sleeping in "uptime"). My Windows laptop and the other computers here (Windows desktops that are both loud and hot) are either hibernated (save system state to disk and turn off) or just plain off.

[chris v]

117 days, with 10.3.6, I think. Haven't had more than 20 or 25 so far with 10.4, mainly because of updates.

[Weyland-Yutani]

Originally Posted by Tesseract

This command will show you recent reboots (unfortunately not all of them):

Code:
last | grep \~

(that's a pipe after last, and a backslash and a tilde after the 'grep')

I had a Linux box up for 6 months or so once, it only went down because of a power outage.

Thanks for this hint, but one question: why doesn't it show all of them. As in, how long can the list become?

cheers

W-Y

[Tesseract]

Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani

Thanks for this hint, but one question: why doesn't it show all of them. As in, how long can the list become?

The 'last' command shows all events which are logged in the file /var/log/wtmp. If this file is deleted or truncated (not sure when this happens, but it's probably done automatically) information about old reboots will be lost.

[Weyland-Yutani]

Originally Posted by Tesseract

The 'last' command shows all events which are logged in the file /var/log/wtmp. If this file is deleted or truncated (not sure when this happens, but it's probably done automatically) information about old reboots will be lost.

Thanks! I see that when one writes only

Code:
last

there comes a list of other things. I can imagine that this list can become rather long with time. Still in our age of multi GB hard drives this shouldn't really be an issue. It is cool to have the entire history of the machine somewhere

cheers

W-Y

[besson3c]

It's very annoying that so many Apple updates require reboots. With Linux or BSD, only kernel upgrades require reboots, and those can be carefully planned (i.e. you can continue to use the currently running kernel while you build the new one).

This is simply unnecessary, especially for OS X Server.

[SSharon]

I'm at 308 days on my ibook and I use it just about every day. My desktop gets restarted about once a month but it has gone 70+ days before.

[- - e r i k - -]

I had it running for about a week after this and then I updated. This was on a G4 tower running 10.2 (and yes, it was used for hard (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro) type of work including internet surfing.

[- - e r i k - -]

On a tangent (speaking of 10.2), how did we ever stand those damn stripes?

[dmxplosive]

what's the command to know previous reboots for windows? i would like to compare my systems

[JoshuaZ]

My uptime is always as long as the lengths between boot requiring updates.

Though we had an OS 10.3 Server going for 4 months before we had to move it, then another 4 months before it had to be moved again. Good old college.

[Athens]

i restart maybe once a month, my old 5400 had a uptime of 13 months on OS 8.6 or 8.5.1 cant remmeber.

[jdiddy]

18 days and change on my 12" PB, 180 days and counting on my file server running Server 2k3

[Randman]

Since Tiger, almost 26 days is the record. Almost 13 days right now (since last update). Earlier systems ran into months from time to time.

[OreoCookie]

Speaking of uptime, the longest I've heard of was 17 years.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by OreoCookie

Speaking of uptime, the longest I've heard of was 17 years.

We also have M$ servers which have been known to stay up for more than
2 weeks before leaking enough memory to require a boot.

[Scifience]

Originally Posted by starman

6+ years? I think it's time to upgrade that puppy

It isn't Internet accessible, and it's a Pentium 133. What would be the point? It still works fine for what I need.

[Jens Peter]

Erik: Morsom samtale du havde med Veronika

Originally Posted by Scifience

It isn't Internet accessible, and it's a Pentium 133. What would be the point? It still works fine for what I need.

What linux-distribution does it run ?

[Scifience]

Originally Posted by Jens Peter

What linux-distribution does it run ?

RedHat 5 "Hurricane"

[dmxplosive]

Originally Posted by OreoCookie

Speaking of uptime, the longest I've heard of was 17 years.

nice find. interesting

[wdlove]

I restart once a week after System Optimizer X performs automatic maintenance.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by Jens Peter

Erik: Morsom samtale du havde med Veronika

Det var ikke med Veronica, det var med Tina. Min lillesøster.

[nonhuman]

I have a fileserver on a blueberry iMac running Gentoo that's been going for 111 days. I installed it 111 days ago, and I fully expect it to keep running without problem until it's replaced with a real server in another 100 days or so.

[nonhuman]

Originally Posted by besson3c

It's very annoying that so many Apple updates require reboots. With Linux or BSD, only kernel upgrades require reboots, and those can be carefully planned (i.e. you can continue to use the currently running kernel while you build the new one).

This is simply unnecessary, especially for OS X Server.

Technically the same is true for OS X. Only updates that affect the kernel require restarts. However Software Install 'requires' and update for anything that modifies any system services rather than restarting just those services. If you want you can force quit Software Update to avoid the restart and the restart any services that need it manually.