[SGVLUG] linux uptimes

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 3/31/06, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> was looking at the linux counter website...
>
> http://counter.li.org/reports/uptimestats.php
>
> Top ten long-running machines
> DAYS         KERNEL                 CPU
> =======================================
> 1624.5      2.2.13-7mdk            Cyrix 486
> 1572.0      2.2.20-rs                 Intel 386
> 1344.2      2.4.18-grsec-1.9.4   Intel Celeron
> 1223.5      2.4.7-10                  Intel PentiumIII
> 1206.3      2.4.21-pre1             Intel Pentium
> 1133.6      2.4.18-686              Intel PentiumII
> 1108.1      2.4.20                     Intel PentiumII
> 1087.4      2.4.18                     Intel Pentium III
>  976.1       2.4.18                     Intel Pentium III
>  956.4       2.4.18-14                Intel PentiumIII
>
> More info about his stats at the website.  Other stats such as kernel
> versions and system stats:  http://counter.li.org/reports/
>
> Looks like the Cyrix is running an older mandrake, hopefully behind a
> firewall.  My boxes currently have 60 and 41 days.  The machine where
> I have my alumni website, also running mdk, has been up 96 days.  One
> of the linux boxes here at work has been up 329 days.  Most of the
> solaris boxes have been up 90-120 days.  And just because, my Netgear
> router has been running 899 days, DSL connection up for 805 days.
>

Lies all lies, jk
Linux uptime rolls over some where in the 400-500 day range so the
only way to know is to check logs or just know. Simply running uptime
command will not tell you. I have had some RHEL3 boxes in the 600 day
range.