uptime

[Peter Motyka]

What can I say... I am an uptime freak.  I thought I would take this time to show off my recent feat in uptime world.  My desktop windows 2000 machine has been purring like a kitten and still is after 19 days of running.  I alway here people complaining about how often they need to reboot thier computers... I guess this shows that your computer system is as stable as you make it.

Check out the screenshot pmotykodesktop.jpg 153KB

Peter

[Jerry]

Well, what about those times where my system decides its time for it to reboot on me? In that case I guess this would show that my computer system is as unstable as Microsoft chooses to make it. :-)

pmotyko wrote:
 I alway here people complaining about how often they need to reboot thier computers... I guess this shows that your computer system is as stable as you make it.

Peter

[William Grim]

Yeah, I've seen Win2K reboot on itself on my friends computer.

"Oh man, I'm about to win at StarCraft!"  *Reboot*  "WTF?!  You fscking piece of {explicative}; I'm going to {explicative} beat your {explicative} {explicative} {explicative}!!!"

Yeah, that's about how my friend feels when his system reboots, and I know it's not the user.  Something is weird about his computer.

[Chris Swingler]

Usually it's some hardware quirk.  Bad driver, loose component, something overheating, bad stick 'o RAM.  But it is annoying...  I had a P200 that picked up this habit.

--Beanie

[Guest]

Do you consider 19 days a long time?  

jeff@yngwie:~$ uptime
 10:44pm  up 72 days, 15:04,  0 users,  load average: 0.13, 0.07, 0.02

jeff@kunda:~$ uptime
 11:10pm  up 147 days, 15:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.01

that whole 19 day thing is kind of cute :)

[Peter Motyka]

root@solar:~# uptime
 10:54pm  up 258 day(s), 12:56,  8 users,  load average: 0.59, 1.32, 0.91

that is the server that runs this site :) nuff said...

It looks even sweeter in colour

Peter

[Guest]

thats more like it :)

What exactly is this site run on anyway?  

[Peter Motyka]

solar.cs is the computer science department's sun server.  We are running solaris 8 on a sun 220R enterprise box.

System specs:
dual ultrasparc II 450MHz cpus
2gb of memory
2 36gb 10k rpm scsi drives

Overall it is a pretty sweet system.  It is used in CS434,CS414 and CS340 and to host our wonderful website :D

Peter

[William Grim]

We need to get another drive for the system so the OS has a place for just it to reside.

That would give us room to test upgrading the system to newer versions of Solaris without fear, etc.

I think I might bring that up some time.

Well, later!

[Guest]

Sun makes the nicest servers ever, in my opinion..  The mips SGI stuff is better for number crunching type things but overall sun is the best..  

I'd like to get one of the cobalt qubes just to play around with it..  

=)

I want to play with SIUEs Suns... Where are they?  Any SGIs on campus?

[C3]

i too hit the 19day mark, what a proud moment :-)   i finally rebooted, now just have to see if it can go longer...

[William Grim]

Our Sun server is solar.cs.siue.edu.  If you are part of the SOENT domain in the EB, then you have access to it.

I also have another present waiting for CS students, but I have to finish it up first (should be this week; it's on my priority list of things to get done).

Later!

[William Grim]

Hey guys!  This uptime would be higher, but I just upgraded FreeBSD to 4.7-RC, and in order to have the new kernel take effect, you must reboot the system.

Anyway, this sytem has run over 60 days at its longest run (seems about every 60 days I have to either physically move the server or xmas breaks come up and we're required to power down).

The system has been installed since Feb. 8, 2002, and it has undergone 4 upgrades during that time.  It went from 4.4 to 4.5 to 4.6 to 4.7-PRERELEASE to 4.7-RC.

Talk about stability.  I even messed up some of the installed software before, but after about 3 days of tweaking the files I broke and reinstalling sofware and then deinstalling properly, the system was fully usable again.  Now THAT is what I call a real OS.

The OS runs on a 16 GB drive where I have no fear of losing data (this is what I want to happen to our Sun server).  The data is warehoused on an 80 GB drive I got a few weeks ago (another drive is needed soon).  Hardware IDE Raid runs the 80 GB drive as ATA/133.

[Stiffler]

I believe the latest version of Norton Ghost or Powerquest DriveImage can move Solaris partitions, so you could just move the OS to a new partition and keep the boot sector. Or, you could just move the files, and use a boot disk and re-install the boot sector. If you want a 60 Gig 7200 Maxtor HD, I can talk to my suitmate, because he owns a Computer Resale business, and he will sell the CS depart one for cheap, or even donate it for free and write it off as a business expense. OR, two or three if I ask nicely. They're IDE drives though. You could use those as a temporary, untill he got SCSI drives in at wholesale cost. Another words, dirt cheap, fun, fun, SCSI HDs. Let me know a precise parts list so I can place the order.

Jon

[Peter Motyka]

The problem with rearranging solar's partitions and harddrives is there are no more physical interfaces to attach drives in the system.  When we ordered solar, we accidently ordered a rack mount system.  To save space they only have room for 2 physical drives to be mounted in the main system.  We have 2 spare harddisks, but no where to  mount them.  There is an external enclosure called the "storEdge" but it is quite expensive and the CS department has balked at purchasing it.

Peter