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[bob]

$ uptime
  01:43PM   up 2018 days, 32 mins,  1 user,  load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.04

$ uname -a
AIX rs6000 1 4 000083284600

It's got an old version of netscape commerce server on it. I keep it running just to see how long it'll last

Nice comment on the downtown Minneapolis power grid. This one isn't even on a UPS. We are next to the Federal Reserve though

[Alex B]

That's incredible!

Is it an IBM RS6000? Do you have hot swappable components or have you run it without any HW changes?

Actually, you could contact Guinness World Records: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/contact_us.asp

[bob]

Yes, it's an RS6000 running aix 4.1.

It's got a pretty old processor, a 66 mhz ppc 601 I believe, 372 megs of ram. It's actually pretty quick for a web server for that vintage.

I think I hotswapped in a spare drive at one time (it's not really hopswappable but I did it anyway). The os is good at picking up new hardware even without a reboot. I'll see if I can find a digital camera to snap a pic. It's been running with the cover off for that whole time

P.S the last reboot 5.5 years ago was to replace a failed master drive.

[bob]

Here is a link to some pictures...



http://www.jriver.com/~bob/rs6000/

[bob]

Ugh, when the power went down in downtown Minneapolis on the 22nd of September the RS6k lost it's uptime, waaaahhhhh.

Final tally, 2108 days.

[John Gateley]

 

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[benn600]

I was going to tell you...too late now...but I was going to tell you to switch it to a UPS before the power goes out like you say it did!








lol, jk.

[madom]

but then, you can't switch to ups without unplugging, can you 

[bob]

I was trying to think of a tricky way to do that but I couldn't come up with one. The thing is the power was down so long that the machines that were on UPS's over there eventually went down as well.

[InflatableMouse]

If the hardware has a redundant power supply you can unplug one power supply, put it in the ups and if it comes up, unplug the other one and switch it to the ups.

 

[InflatableMouse]

but 5,5 years is longer than i've seen.

That was a Novell server running on a compaq for 3,5 years but I left the company.

That was nearly 10 years ago, for what I know that may still be running

It was funny because they hadn't looked at it for 3 years when I first came there. The poor guy couldnt find the server and finally started making excuses that he was only working there for 2 years when we found it in an abandoned part of the office under a desk .... 

And if you think Windows cant do that think again. We have a customer running a Windows NT 4 server for I think about 3 years now too.

[newsposter]

Where are you, in that Wells Fargo bunker next door to Ricks??

[bob]

Actually, at the corporate HQ in the warehouse district