[KLUG Advocacy] One year anniversary

[Robert G. Brown]

>>>[marshall@megatron marshall]$ uptime
>>> 10:46am  up 365 days, 16:44,  2 users,  load average: 0.40, 0.40, 0.36
>>Cool!!! 
>>I've never been able to keep power going that long.
That's been a problem here at Chez Brown as well. 

>What you need is a huge UPS and a redundant pair of natural gas powered
>generators. :)
What we need is a more reliable electric company, dammit! When I was 
living in NY and NJ, we never had this frequency of short outages.

>[root@littleboy /root]# uptime
> 11:07pm  up 257 days, 17 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.42, 0.22, 0.13
>barracuda:~ $uptime
> 11:07pm  up 415 days,  6:57,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>[root@firewall /root]# uptime
> 12:16am  up 353 days, 13:18,  2 users,  load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01
>mie:/ $ uptime
>  11:09PM   up 338 days,  10:24,  3 users,  load average: 1.55, 1.20, 1.13
>[root@natches root]# uptime
> 11:09pm  up 108 days, 14:49,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>But still only one has broken a year.  My limitation is having to
>physically move things. :(

Yes, but in less than 10 days, you'll have 2, and in less than 30 days, 3
So that's not too shabby!

Sadly, my uptime has suffered from a number of little problems, my longest
at the moments is 251 days, which is when I rebooted the machine after 
plugging it into a UPS. Before that I had 184 days of good service from it.
With 9 machines here, only 3 of them are on a UPS, the ones I deem 
essential for production. Of those, one is the machine with long uptime,
another would match it, but got its power switch bumped into 134 days, 
10 houra, 5 minutes ago, and a third had a problem with its wiring 
harness that dropped it out 96 days 11 hours 12 minutes back.

It has been a rough year, but obvious to me is the factthat our favorite
OS has not been the wek link in the chain, that's for sure!

							Regards,
							---> RGB <---