[geeks] Uptime :(

[Chris Byrne]

Okay, so what exactly is the box hardware wise?

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of Kris Kirby
> Sent: 29 April 2002 04:42
> To: Geeks
> Cc: luna-list at luna.huntsville.al.us; banter at uuna.org
> Subject: [geeks] Uptime :(
>
>
> > 2:06AM  up 312 days, 19:41, 2 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.41, 0.79
> > spaz.catonic.net
>
> Turned off two days ago to hunt down an RFI problem that turned out to be
> the new dishwasher. :(
>
> Was very suprised to see that the power supply fan started turning on it's
> own again. If it wasn't at the bottom of the rack/stack, I would have
> cleaned it out. It's probably very caked in dust.
>
> This machine has run for...
>
> ... 52 days, then a UPS test button was held in too long ...
> ... 141 days, surviving a facilities move without the removal of power ...
> ... and now 312 days without interruption at the bottom of the rack,
>     outlasting several utility outages in excess of fifteen minutes (all
>     hail the uber-UPS!).
>
> The longest downtime for this box has been about two hours, tops. This is
> the single longest runtime I have admin'd a box to. It has also endured a
> hot-swap of a CPU fan, because of an impending failure[0].
>
> [0] Trick is to switch the *fan* not the *heatsink*.
>
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