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Show us amazingly long uptimes

1 pointsby miloc_cabout 6 years ago
I am always proud of my raspberrypi server at home. Its long uptime is almost 4 months! [pi@rbp1]~$ uptime 15:31:17 up 114 days, 4:21, 2 users, load average: 0.42, 0.23, 0.17 show me yours!

3 comments

ktpsnsabout 6 years ago
I sometimes noticed for long uptimes (like more then a year), the uptime command shows an exclamation mark. However, I cannot find a threshold or even the code for the exclamation mark at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.savannah.gnu.org&#x2F;gitweb&#x2F;?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src&#x2F;uptime.c;h=c0869dbc4f939e65ea967b8ba840010e9009e40b;hb=HEAD" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.savannah.gnu.org&#x2F;gitweb&#x2F;?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f...</a> -- does anybody have an idea about that?<p>Is the exclamation mark intended to warn the admin to reboot (since there might be an updated kernel, etc.), or does the system wow itself? ;-)
simonblackabout 6 years ago
Once upon a time it was a mark of pride to have a long uptime. My record was six months plus one day. Why did I reboot? Because I needed to upgrade my system.<p>Then I realised that big uptimes were a <i>bad</i> sign, that they signified a system that hadn&#x27;t been kept up to date and was vulnerable.
wglbabout 6 years ago
At Mark Williams, we had a z8000 prototype, still in pieces, sitting on a lab table, which was up for at least 180 days. It well may have been longer.