My Linux box that had been up for a long time had to be reset. The machine was started on May 3, 2005 at 8:58am and stayed up until today, January 22 right at the stroke of midnight. That puts the uptime to 993 days, 15 hours, or 2 years, 8 months, 18 days, and 15 hours.
So what killed it? A cron job started at midnight that triggered a bug in ReiserFS, stopping all operations to the filesystem. Remarkably, the system was still running, responding to pings, and sending 500 errors on the web server. I have known of problems with ReiserFS for some time, and all my other systems now used XFS. However, I wanted to see how long this box would stay up, so I hadn't rebuilt it yet. Now that it has crashed, I will go ahead and rebuild it using newer, more reliable software parts. Anyway, just wanted to let people know of the great reliability of Linux. I'm just bummed it didn't make it the even 1000 days. -- Alberto Treviño [EMAIL PROTECTED] Testing Center Brigham Young University -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
