[ale] uptime?

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

John G. Heim wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pat Regan" <thehead at patshead.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] uptime?
> 
>> On 12/28/2009 10:56 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
>>> 11:09am  up 771 days 14:30,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>>               ^^^
>> You're ahead of my Xen host server :(
>>
>>  17:13:12 up 643 days,  5:12,  1 user,  load average: 0.13, 0.04, 0.01
>>
>> The uptime and kernels of the guests aren't as high or old :)
> 
> Yeah, linux is amazing isn't it? I have a linux box in my basement that 
> serves as a front end to our DSL service. It runs a caching DNS server, 
> dhcp, samba, etc. I do automatic backups of anything stored on the network 
> drive. Its all very nice. Anyway, one time I logged in and was kind of 
> surprised to see that the machine had been up for over 400 days. It was just 
> sitting there in the basement serving the household needs for over a year 
> without me even giving it a thought.
> 
> It's a beautiful thing.

My most amazing machine is a Pentium with 32m of memory.  It runs motion 
24/7 on a camera that 'watches' my driveway.  It sits with a constant 
load average over 1, with motion eating up 99% cpu.  It just plugs away. 
  It's had uptimes in excess of 400 days.  The amazing thing is, it's 
caught some great lightening shots.  I can't imagine that it would ever 
be fast enough to capture such photos.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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