From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Re: New info sheet draft, please comment Date: 1 Nov 1992 12:29:15 GMT
rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>Has anyone out there had Linux up for more than 50 days without a reboot?
According to a report on one of the mailing lists, at least almost. I
won't post the whole thing (I'll leave that to the author), but here is
part of it (a small part):
> On Oct 21, 7:46am, Omnipotent1@thunder wrote:
> } Subject: LINUX(c) uptime.
> > 7:46am up 47 days, 19:26, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.00
> }-- End of excerpt from Omnipotent1@thunder
>
> I almost hated to knock the old girl down but I had to upgrade the
> kernel this morning so that we can load the jump 4.1 binary package
> along with Xv2.1.
>
> thunder is a Gateway 2K 80386sx/16Mhz with 4Mbyte of memory and a
> 40Mbyte hard-drive which is located at our nursing station. This
> machine had been up and operational for 47 days with a 0.97PL1 kernel.
> The actual uptime would have been in the range of 50-55 days but a
> construction crew severed the main feeder line to our clinic about a
> week after I load 0.97PL1 on this machine.