Okai,

here's my $0.02 on the subject:

http://systemnet.no/ios-uptime.jpg


/Pete







On 29 Oct 2008, at 18:49, guilherme m. schroeder wrote:

quoted text
> Hi,
>
> Uptimes sucks. Here's the biggest i've ever seen in the company i  
> work:
>
> [operator@optg998 ~]$ uname -a
> SunOS optg998 5.6 Generic_105181-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi- 
> cEngine
> [operator@optg998 ~]$ uptime
>  3:40pm  up 2639 day(s), 13:50,  1 user,  load average: 0.08, 0.07,  
> 0.06
> [operator@optg998 ~]$ date
> Wed Oct 29 15:45:24 BRST 2008
> [operator@optg998 ~]$ psrinfo -v
> Status of processor 0 as of: 10/29/08 15:41:07
>  Processor has been on-line since 08/08/01 00:50:54.
>  The sparc processor operates at 440 MHz,
>        and has a sparc floating point processor.
> [operator@optg998 ~]$ dmesg | tail -5
> SUNW,hme0: Using External Transceiver
> SUNW,hme0: 100 Mbps half-duplex Link Up
> dump on /dev/md/dsk/d50 size 2042608K
> SUNW,hme0: Using External Transceiver
> SUNW,hme0: full-duplex Link Up
>
> Ok it's not OpenBSD, blame on me. But what i liked is that this
> machine is working for 2639 days and it stills blink green leds. The
> harddisk never gave up too. No errors on dmesg.
> It's a Netra T1 machine, running our internal DNS server. I think
> we'll replace it when it dies ;)
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Gilles Chehade <gilles@poolp.org>  
> wrote:
>> new_guy a icrit :
>>>
>>> I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran
>>> across
>>> an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been  
>>> hacked.
>>> The
>>> only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full.  
>>> So, I
>>> thought to myself, "I bet I could run an OpenBSD box for that  
>>> amount of
>>> time
>>> or longer without getting hacked and without doing much to it." Just
>>> wondering what's the longest OpenBSD uptime some folks on misc  
>>> have seen?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>
>> It is not the size of your uptime that matters, it is what you do  
>> with it.
>>
>> Gilles