Speaking of which, I have submitted a claim to Guiness Book of Records
for my uptime on a lowly 486 box that serves my webpages (via NFS) as
a 'home user' (I am sure business classed machines do better with UPS
etc.). I have posted here twice when it hit 1000 days and then 1500
days:
[nick@486Linux nick]$ uname -a
Linux 486Linux 2.2.13-7mdk #1 Wed Sep 15 18:02:18 CEST 1999 i486 unknown
[nick@486Linux nick]$ last -xf /var/run/utmp runlevel
runlevel (to lvl 3) Sun Oct 14 16:07 - 16:42 (1751+00:34)
The claim has been accepted, and is now in evaluation... so I dunno
what happens next until I hear from them (or how it can be verified
unless someone pops along and I telnet into the box for them).
Nick
On 31/07/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:59:13 EDT, Thomas Tuttle said:
> Like many people, I like to brag about how great my uptime is. But like
> many other people, I like to keep my kernel up-to-date with the latest
> and greatest from kernel.org. I recently discovered the magic of kexec,
> which allows me to switch kernels without rebooting for real.
> Unfortunately, kexec resets my uptime when it runs.
The reset of uptime is probably a Good Thing. Consider the case of
a kernel memory leak - you look in /proc/meminfo and find that you've
managed
to lose 64 meg of memory to the leak. Where you start looking for the
leak will depend on whether it's 64 meg lost across 4 weeks since the
last boot, or the 30 minutes since the last boot.
(Speaking as somebody who's run into both classes of leaks...)
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