Uptime Statistics 4895

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In my oldest machine (since repaired, then donated to the deserving poor), my ATI video board died an interesting rest. X did not work at all (it was probably working, but I could not see anything), and the virtual consoles worked, in a way: everything printed in column 1, so it was useless. Put in a new video board and it worked for another year or so. I kept it only to run Windows 95 on it, and finally, Intuit said I could no longer run Quicken or TurboTax (I forget which) because it was too slow. Well I ran it one more year, but each year TurboTax gets less efficient, so it had trouble keeping up with my typing, etc. Now that box had 256 Meg RAM and a 166MHz Pentium in it, so it should have been able to keep up with my typing. But by the time I put Red Hat Linux 9 in it, it was too slow there too. So it got donated. Two computers at a time are enough for me although I ran all three for a while (main server machine has dual gigabit ethernet controller, so I just plugged one in each of the ports: cheaper than a switch or router). One to do most everything, and the previous one to dual boot Windows for Quicken and TurboTax, and running BOINC processes under Linux most of the time.

As far as I can tell, my uptime record (on my old machine) VA Linux Systems machine with two 10,000 rpm Ultra-2 SCSI hard drives, one Ecrix VXA-1 tape drive, 512MBytes RAM, 2 Pentium III processors, Red Hat Linux 7.3 was a reboot for new (last one for 7.3) kernel 2.4.20-28.7-i686.rpm,

was from 2004 January 6 until 2004 September 17 when I wanted to put Fedora Core 2 on that machine and dual boot it with Windows XP Home. Sigh. FC2 did not work out for me, so I stuck Red Hat 9 in there. So that was up about 8 1-2 months, say 250 days. I am surprised there were no power failures long enough to shut down that system. That UPS normally has enough capacity to run 32 minutes these days with the CRT monitor off, and about 18 minutes with it on. It was probably a bit more when the UPS was a bit newer. That UPS got a new battery 2003-July-10.

That machine now has an 80 GByte EIDE hard drive on it too, now, for Windows, and some stuff that need not be so fast as to require the SCSI drives. It has too much stuff in it, really, considering what it is now doing. I suppose I could move one of the SCSI drives to my new machine, but it is too much bother and the new machine already has 6 hard drives in it.

-- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. V PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ^^-^^ 12:40:00 up 7 days, 11:02, 3 users, load average: 4.33, 4.29, 4.15