Uptime - How long has your Mac been running? [Archive]

xlacrosse

Mar 19, 2003, 08:35 PM

Hey Everyone... in my quest to see how long jaguar will keep on ticking without a reboot, ive hit a all time personal length of 26 Days. Running 10.2.4

what kinda times has everyone else gotten?

vniow

Mar 19, 2003, 08:44 PM

I made a thread like this awhile back but only three people replied.http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=252654

Link if interested. (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19070)

Ah well, I had to restart for the Java update I think so it's hardly impressive:

janey

Mar 19, 2003, 10:06 PM

Originally posted by vniow
Ah well, I had to restart for the Java update I think so it's hardly impressive:
i did too...and a whole bunch of other software and because i finally got a KP on one of the power macs (first time ever on that comp!)
about 15 minutes :cool:

MrMacMan

Mar 19, 2003, 10:31 PM

damn, if this had been hours eariler... :(
I had 15 days running a couple hours ago... so mine sucks... ;)

ddtlm

Mar 19, 2003, 10:53 PM

Almost 128 days on my Linux machine where patches are less reboot-happy, compared to OSX. Last reboot was due to a temperature alarm and the one before that was due to moving. If Apple stops requireing so many reboots for patches you will grow bored with uptime soon enough. :)

eyeluvmyimac

Mar 19, 2003, 11:25 PM

xlacrosse - very very very nice chocie of a desktop. I absolutely LOVE the g35 coupe, and have ever since I learned about it almost a year ago. If you like it too or even have one (lucky devil) check out www.6mt.net (http://www.6mt.net)

saint

Mar 20, 2003, 12:12 AM

I had 64 days on my iBook before I had to install the 10.2.4 update- was quite surprised when I saw it was that long.

Only up to 7 days at the moment.

xlacrosse

Mar 20, 2003, 06:17 AM

hey eyeluvmyimac the red G35 on my desktop isnt mine. But i do own a Laser Red 6mt G35 Coupe With Nav and Aero Package ;) I Love my Car! 6mt.net is a sweet site, i ussualy read the forums at feshalloy.com and my350z.com

Mr. Anderson

Mar 20, 2003, 06:57 AM

I've only got 15 and 16 days on my machines at home, not sure about the office. Only thing is, with the recent updates to some of the software, this isn't a truly good way to gauge how long you've been running.

I'm doing Folding@home all the time. The machines are never down.

D

Bear

Mar 20, 2003, 07:30 AM

8:28AM up 9 days, 14:51, 3 users, load averages: 0.80, 0.26, 0.10

But how much of any Mac's uptime was spent sleeping?

My last reboot was the Java install. Before that was probably the 10.2.4 upgrade.

I wonder how many different uptime threads there have been in these forums anyway.

howard

Mar 20, 2003, 09:34 AM

i restart every couple of days for various reasons... software updates or restarting in os 9 and things like that

thekaiser

Mar 20, 2003, 09:50 AM

I restart every couple of days. However, I think that I am still in my Windows world in which that was a reality. I am sure that I would not have to do this. Does anyone know of any distinct advantages to restarting every couple of days or should I just let it go? Let me know what you guys think or have experienced. Thanks.

MACaccino

Mar 20, 2003, 11:23 AM

xlacrosse, love the Infiniti G35 Coupe on your background. Sweet:cool:

LethalWolfe

Mar 20, 2003, 12:07 PM

I shut down every night to keep her cool. FCP doesn't seem to like running on a "hot mac" and a dual gig w/4 internal HDDs gets kinda toasty. ;)

My Win2k box stays up for 3-4 months at a time.

Lethal

alset

Mar 20, 2003, 12:34 PM

My best was around 23 days. Now I can't seem to get past 5 days without installing new software that requires a reboot or running into bugs in 10.24 that take the whole system down.

I'm curious how much activity on machines that have been running for 30+ days. I was using mine constantly when I hit my best, but I also know that I could achieve well over 100 days with my old graphite that I only use for folding if I wasn't ever using it.

Dan

icetraxxg5

Mar 20, 2003, 07:19 PM

I am currently at 6 minutes uptime ;)

There is a big storm right now and the power keeps going out.

xlacrosse

Mar 20, 2003, 09:00 PM

Im holding back on installing any updates until she craps out ;) So far im at 27 days.

Cheese

Mar 20, 2003, 10:37 PM

Up for three days. I sometimes power down in the event of a bad thunderstorm. You know... unplug things so they don't blow up too bad!!

yzedf

Mar 20, 2003, 11:09 PM

nice pic

what's up with all the damn icons on the desktop?

9 days uptime...

shadowfax

Mar 22, 2003, 12:36 AM

Originally posted by Bear
But how much of any Mac's uptime was spent sleeping?

i think that sleeping the comp when you aren't using it, for a mac with OS X, is worse than leaving it on and idle. that allows it to run its maintenance scripts, which is why you need macjanitor, or you can run the scripts
(/etc/weekly /etc/daily /etc/monthly) yourself.

anyways, my personal best on my Tibook was 20 days 22:30 hours or so. my DVD player started spazzing out and i got pissed and restarted, after which time it worked fine.

current is 7 days 6:31, working my way back up. i want to have it up for a month :D

shadowfax

Mar 22, 2003, 12:41 AM

Originally posted by xlacrosse
Im holding back on installing any updates until she craps out ;) So far im at 27 days.

you can run the updates and then kill update from the terminal when it says it is done and asks you to restart :). of course, you still have to wait for when you crap out for a lot of them to take place, but there you have it. just run top, find the process number of software update, then close top, and type "kill x", with x being the number.
Originally posted by Cheese
Up for three days. I sometimes power down in the event of a bad thunderstorm. You know... unplug things so they don't blow up too bad!! this is why i love having a laptop :D

sparks9

Mar 22, 2003, 04:48 AM

why don't you shut down the computer at night or when you're not home? I always do...
BTW: I'm running win2000 and it haven't crashed in a very long time... but rebooting is often needed when installing new programmes and drivers.

xlacrosse

Mar 22, 2003, 08:54 AM

Originally posted by sparks9
why don't you shut down the computer at night or when you're not home?

That would involve more time before my computer is useable. You know New Yorkers cant stand waiting for anything.

:D

shadowfax

Mar 22, 2003, 12:15 PM

Originally posted by sparks9
why don't you shut down the computer at night or when you're not home? I always do... xlacrosse is right. it's more time you have to wait through when starting back up. why would you want to do that, especially when it isn't helpful? restarting works wonders on Windows; that's rarely the case for OS X.

kaltsasa

Mar 22, 2003, 06:18 PM

Well I've only been up for 4 days right now, Java update. I usually only have to restart due to updates.

On another note, my Airport has been up for almost a month now, and it only went down then cuz i blew the breakers.

janey

Mar 22, 2003, 06:25 PM

pretty bad...had to restart because of a kernel panic...

xlacrosse

Apr 2, 2003, 11:08 PM

Just for a little Update my new record is 40 Days ! Jaguar Rocks!

shadowfax

Apr 2, 2003, 11:24 PM

update:

[Shadowfax:~] mithrandir% uptime
11:24PM up 19 days, 5:19, 2 users, load averages: 0.62, 0.47, 0.47

getting up there, yea!

Nipsy

Apr 3, 2003, 01:08 AM

Since the last security update I think:
11:08PM up 14 days, 20:25, 3 users, load averages: 0.35, 0.28, 0.18

Wes

Apr 3, 2003, 02:04 AM

I was wondering what the three numbers mean? I have 0.21, 0.34, 0.32, is it something to do with users? Or work being done by the system and the user?

peterjhill

Apr 3, 2003, 04:27 AM

[Titan:~] phill% uptime
5:16AM up 2 days, 10:32, 5 users, load averages: 0.43, 0.39, 0.33

One of the routers on my network:
rtrbone.gw uptime is 16 weeks, 13 hours, 21 minutes
System returned to ROM by reload at 10:51:47 EST Tue Dec 4 2001
System restarted at 15:58:03 EST Wed Dec 11 2002

Our syslog server has done pretty well:
sentry2:~phill% uptime
5:20am up 85 days, 21:21, 3 users, load average: 0.25, 0.33, 0.29

JupiterZen

Apr 3, 2003, 05:53 AM

Originally posted by xlacrosse
Hey Everyone... in my quest to see how long jaguar will keep on ticking without a reboot, ive hit a all time personal length of 26 Days. Running 10.2.4

what kinda times has everyone else gotten?

I'm only just getting used to sleeping my mac so it's uptime isn't very noteworthy (up since yesterday ;) )

But my Novell server here at home has been going strong since I applied SP2 for Netware 6 ;)

:cool:

shadowfax

Apr 3, 2003, 05:11 PM

Originally posted by JupiterZen
I'm only just getting used to sleeping my mac so it's uptime isn't very noteworthy (up since yesterday ;) )

But my Novell server here at home has been going strong since I applied SP2 for Netware 6 ;)

:cool:

i remember my grandpa telling me about a guy who was pissed off at his Linux Club meeting because he had to restart his linux server box after 576 days' uptime when the power went out. tsk!

Vector

Apr 3, 2003, 05:49 PM

Here is mine. PowerBook Wallstreet 233 running os x.

Vector

Apr 3, 2003, 06:24 PM

Here is the uptime on my Quicksilver 933 running jaguar.

Sorry for the double post it would only let me upload one attachment.

Computer_Phreak

Apr 3, 2003, 07:44 PM

I keep my ibook sleeping while i sleep

It takes far too long to boot up normally.

Would performance increase after a reboot because of clearing the RAM / pageouts?:confused:

shadowfax

Apr 3, 2003, 08:05 PM

Originally posted by Computer_Phreak
I keep my ibook sleeping while i sleep

It takes far too long to boot up normally.

Would performance increase after a reboot because of clearing the RAM / pageouts?:confused:

in a word, no.

you need to run macJanitor regularly (check versiontracker), or you can run

sudo sh /etc/daily
sudo sh /etc/weekly
sudo sh /etc/monthly

as often as you like. it really frees up ram. whenever it doesn't free up enough, i relogout/in and that does the trick.

Rower_CPU

Apr 3, 2003, 08:17 PM

Between QT 6.1.1 and ARD 1.2 I've had to restart everything lately...nothing special from me.

With 10.2.5 in the works soon it'll be tough to keep machines up for very long without another reboot.

JupiterZen

Apr 4, 2003, 04:33 AM

Originally posted by Shadowfax
i remember my grandpa telling me about a guy who was pissed off at his Linux Club meeting because he had to restart his linux server box after 576 days' uptime when the power went out. tsk!

That's why I have an APC smart-UPS 1000 even at home. It has saved me a couple of times in the past, keeping everything running while the power failed or while we had to disconnect the power to rewire some things. Otherwise the uptime on my Novell server wouldn't be so high ;)

You can get a secondhand APC Smart-UPS here for around 100 Euro's so it's not even extremely expensive. I'm even consierering getting a 3000VA model and just connect all the rest of my equipment as well, to protect against lightning and peaks.

Last year I was doing maintenance to the system of a client and with pain in my heart I had to reboot their Netware 4.11 server that had been up for 463 days. Really it broke my heart.

peterjhill

Apr 4, 2003, 05:08 AM

The great thing about a laptop is that you have a built in UPS. It is great at work, when I am working on my PB with external 21" monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Power flickers, and I am still in business, while I hear groans around me. :D

JupiterZen

Apr 4, 2003, 06:08 AM

Originally posted by peterjhill
The great thing about a laptop is that you have a built in UPS. It is great at work, when I am working on my PB with external 21" monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Power flickers, and I am still in business, while I hear groans around me. :D

I know. The battery on my WinXP laptop, that I have for work, has saved me a couple of times.

But running my server on a laptop too, just to have the built in UPS would seem a bit strange ;)

mrbiin

Apr 4, 2003, 06:41 AM

This is the uptime on my linux server running Oracle 9i:

oracle@linux:~ > uptime
12:21pm up 424 days, 3:45, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Giaguara

Apr 4, 2003, 10:47 AM

i normally restart about every week or 10 days or so.

JupiterZen

Apr 5, 2003, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by mrbiin
This is the uptime on my linux server running Oracle 9i:

oracle@linux:~ > uptime
12:21pm up 424 days, 3:45, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Nice ... I hope it keeps up the good work ;)

guitargeek

Apr 5, 2003, 11:19 AM

The power in my neighborhood isn't steady enough to keep my computer running for more than a few weeks. I always leave my computer on, but sometimes when I come home it's off and all the clocks are flashing....

So my record is about 3 weeks.

JupiterZen

Apr 5, 2003, 12:19 PM

Originally posted by guitargeek
The power in my neighborhood isn't steady enough to keep my computer running for more than a few weeks. I always leave my computer on, but sometimes when I come home it's off and all the clocks are flashing....

So my record is about 3 weeks.

If I were you I would buy some secondhand big UPS (or a couple of APC smart-UPS 3000 models or something like that). And just put you're whole house on them.

;)

shadowfax

Apr 5, 2003, 03:19 PM

Originally posted by JupiterZen
That's why I have an APC smart-UPS 1000 even at home. It has saved me a couple of times in the past, keeping everything running while the power failed or while we had to disconnect the power to rewire some things. Otherwise the uptime on my Novell server wouldn't be so high ;)

You can get a secondhand APC Smart-UPS here for around 100 Euro's so it's not even extremely expensive. I'm even consierering getting a 3000VA model and just connect all the rest of my equipment as well, to protect against lightning and peaks.

Last year I was doing maintenance to the system of a client and with pain in my heart I had to reboot their Netware 4.11 server that had been up for 463 days. Really it broke my heart.

personally, i prefer just a laptop; then you get a UPS built in, so to speak--3 hours duration, hehe.

by the way, moving up:

[Shadowfax:~] mithrandir% uptime
3:19PM up 21 days, 21:14, 3 users, load averages: 2.29, 1.97, 1.55

maradong

Apr 5, 2003, 03:30 PM

Its none of mine, but i found this somewhere on the net. Not bad for os 9 huh?

JupiterZen

Apr 5, 2003, 04:47 PM

Originally posted by Shadowfax
personally, i prefer just a laptop; then you get a UPS built in, so to speak--3 hours duration, hehe.

But having a working laptop that can't access my files when the power fails, isn't very handy. So I use the APC Smart UPS 1000 to protect my Novell server, broadband router, switch and ISDN stuff down in the basement.

;)

shadowfax

Apr 5, 2003, 05:07 PM

Originally posted by JupiterZen
But having a working laptop that can't access my files when the power fails, isn't very handy. So I use the APC Smart UPS 1000 to protect my Novell server, broadband router, switch and ISDN stuff down in the basement.

;)

ah, true, gotta keep your other stuff online too.

trebblekicked

Apr 6, 2003, 01:11 AM

this sucks, but i'm under two days on both my machines ( i did big software updates)... i don't know how long exactly, but my quicksilver was up for over a month at least twice.