[techtalk] uptimes ... ;)

[James Sutherland]

On Sun, 27 May 2001, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:09:13AM +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
> >
> > LOL! You could try porting the login script my friend has - it tracks the
> > top 10 uptimes on the network, and this machine's position in the chart.
> > The highest listed is slightly under 203 days, on a 2.0 kernel; no 2.4
> > boxes listed yet...
>
> in my home LAN I have an old 2.0.36 system with an uptime of currently
> 181 days -- seems to have been a particularly stable kernel version.
> I've had many Netscape Navigators running wild and trying to crash it,
> but I still always somehow managed to have it survive...
> This is the system I can always return to when I messed up everything
> else, but need to get something done. What a nice and warm feeling!
>
> And just in case you were wondering: 181 days ago, there was a power
> outage which my UPS wasn't able to smooth away ;)

UPSes are nice; one day, I'll probably get one, but somehow there's always
something else more important to eat cash...

> BTW, does anyone know of a way to upgrade the kernel while keeping
> uptimes?
> ... a question, the heart of which only real geeks do understand :)

Actually, that question was asked for real earlier today on linux-kernel!
To some extent, it's possible - you can upgrade individual modules - but
you can't go from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3 without rebooting. Yet ;-)


James.