darlodge

What's the longest you have seen a single server up for?

One of our servers has been up for 250 days which is the longest I've seen.

Darren

jamieerst

You must work in a microsoft environment.....

....i seen a server on a customers site that had been up for 540 days!

the record is 3 years i think, a Netware server had been boxed into a small hole by builders.

stevencotton

Solaris, 3 years uptime. Box was online the whole time, only went down because of a change of co-lo.

darlodge

Nope most of our main file and data servers are Novell 5.1 The only reason it is only 250 was due to a disk upgrade, before that it was about 210 so that makes 460

Just checked out 24 hour hotel server (HP box) and that has been up for 185 days

Darren

dsmith

Nice to see people regularly patching then

stevem2k

Do a patch roundup OBP etc once a year .. so around 365 days is 'normal'


Steve

darlodge

dsmith,

All our Servers are upto date apart from our (2) 24 hour Windows servers. I've questioned it in the past but my questions go unanswered

Novell Servers rarely get bugs or patches

Oh well, when the **** hits the fan maybe then I'll get an answer

Darren

druddle

Seen a FSC Solaris box up for 790 odd days. It fell over cos Oracle 7.x that was running on it couldnt handle the uptime value that was so high.

Funnily enough Oracle wrote a patch quite quickly

dsmith

LOL

Just logged onto a network switch to do some checks and noticed....

Uptime is 868 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes

And that one definately should have had a code upgrade 4 months ago

Deano

*Sonic*

Oi ya cheeky feckler


My own server has been up for about 450 days, and its Win2k SP2

DSOTM

...one of our NT4 servers had an uptime of somewhere around 740 days at one point. We found it hard to believe but turned out to be correct.

Currently have some Win2K boxes that have ~380 days uptime too, and they've only been in just over a year

Dunno about our *nix boxes.....nowt to do with me

swaussie

Ah the infamous "server 54" that was walled in at the University of Carolina for over 4 years without missing a beat. That must have been the funniest building job ever.. can just see it now

Builder 1 - " What are we supposed to do with this server?"

builder 2 - " How the hell should I know"

Builder 1 - " Oh well, not my problem, put the fookin wall up "

Best I saw was over 2 years on a novell box. Those things were "set up and walk away material"

just looking at the Novell site and one guy claims 1295 days uptime

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Yep - when I left Excel 18 months ago, the Novell 4.2 box in the corner was still humming away & as far as I remember, I hadn't touched it since upgrading to 4.2 (y2k) in Sept 99. It is probably still sitting there wiring away right now. Certainly the current SysAdmins wouldn't know what to do with it!

R1916v

5 years (apparently, I have only been at my place a year).

A VMS/DEC mammoth that ran one of our systems, it only recently went down when a disk failed. 2 weeks offline (heh try finding someone who can get a new disc and rebuild it lol!) and its back up as usual

IWatkins

Just checked one of my servers on the network. Running NT4 has been up just over 3.5 years. On a UPS so no power failures have affected it.

I was quite surprised as it is actually doing quite a bit of work, processing something like 3 Gig of new raw data a day into a few stats.

Might need a defrag by now

Cheers

Ian

dsmith

Now that's a clever server - even auto-repairs the cat 5 install