Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+ 100 days uptime

[Chris Vogel]

Charlie’s uptime was a little over 70 days with Ubuntu, and now she has reached her one hundredth day with Debian.

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chris@charlie:~$ uptime
01:30:20 up 100 days, 46 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.23, 0.34, 0.23

While my system has been up for 100 days, my current GNOME session has only lasted since 12 September, or 89 days.

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chris@charlie:~$ who
chris    tty7         2009-09-12 20:01 (:0)
chris    pts/0        2009-11-14 21:35 (:0.0)
chris    pts/1        2009-09-12 20:09 (:0.0)

My computer has idled for a cumulative 19 days, which is 19% of the system uptime.

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chris@charlie:~$ cat /proc/uptime
8643155.73 1648600.46

I still have some RAM to spare.

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chris@charlie:~$ free
            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3991016    2607336    1383680          0      98128     758256
-/+ buffers/cache:    1750952    2240064
Swap:      3903480       3312    3900168

I have suspended my computer 365 times

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chris@charlie:~$ grep 'ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3' /var/log/messages | wc -l
365

What really matters: Process-specific uptimes. . Notice how one of my most used programs, Epiphany, has one of the shortest uptimes.

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chris@charlie:~$ ps -eo %c%t
COMMAND             ELAPSED
init            100-00:51:52
kthreadd        100-00:51:52
migration/0     100-00:51:52
ksoftirqd/0     100-00:51:52
watchdog/0      100-00:51:52
events/0        100-00:51:52
khelper         100-00:51:52
kblockd/0       100-00:51:52
kacpid          100-00:51:52
kacpi_notify    100-00:51:52
ksuspend_usbd   100-00:51:52
khubd           100-00:51:52
kseriod         100-00:51:52
pdflush         100-00:51:51
pdflush         100-00:51:51
kswapd0         100-00:51:51
aio/0           100-00:51:51
ata/0           100-00:51:51
ata_aux         100-00:51:51
scsi_eh_0       100-00:51:50
scsi_eh_1       100-00:51:50
scsi_eh_2       100-00:51:50
kstriped        100-00:51:49
ksnapd          100-00:51:49
kdmflush        100-00:50:52
kcryptd_io      100-00:50:52
kcryptd         100-00:50:52
kdmflush        100-00:50:52
kdmflush        100-00:50:52
kdmflush        100-00:50:52
kdmflush        100-00:50:52
kdmflush        100-00:50:51
kdmflush        100-00:50:51
kjournald       100-00:50:51
nautilus        45-11:20:47
bash            26-03:59:27
ktpacpid        100-00:50:49
iwl3945/0       100-00:50:47
iwl3945         100-00:50:47
kpsmoused       100-00:50:46
pccardd         100-00:50:44
kjournald       100-00:50:32
kjournald       100-00:50:32
kjournald       100-00:50:32
kjournald       100-00:50:32
portmap         100-00:50:30
rpc.statd       100-00:50:30
kondemand/0     100-00:50:28
rsyslogd        100-00:50:27
dbus-daemon     100-00:50:27
famd            100-00:50:25
dhcdbd          100-00:50:25
btaddconn       100-00:50:24
btdelconn       100-00:50:24
krfcommd        100-00:50:23
NetworkManager  100-00:50:23
NetworkManagerD 100-00:50:23
gdm             100-00:50:22
system-tools-ba 100-00:50:22
atd             100-00:50:22
cron            100-00:50:22
getty           100-00:50:21
getty           100-00:50:21
getty           100-00:50:21
getty           100-00:50:21
getty           100-00:50:21
getty           100-00:50:21
SystemToolsBack 100-00:48:37
totem-plugin-vi 17-00:03:57
trashapplet     73-14:19:21
ps                    00:00
acpid           93-01:53:53
epiphany-browse  1-15:09:27
gconfd-2        89-06:33:02
gdm             89-06:32:40
Xorg            89-06:32:39
gnome-keyring-d 89-06:32:29
x-session-manag 89-06:32:29
dbus-daemon     89-06:32:29
dbus-launch     89-06:32:29
seahorse-agent  89-06:32:29
gnome-settings- 89-06:32:29
metacity        89-06:32:29
gnome-panel     89-06:32:29
gnome-screensav 89-06:32:29
gnome-vfs-daemo 89-06:32:28
empathy         89-06:32:28
nm-applet       89-06:32:28
mixer_applet2   89-06:32:28
gnome-power-man 89-06:32:28
gnome-volume-ma 89-06:32:28
gnome-inhibit-a 89-06:32:28
GlobalMenu.Pane 89-06:32:28
mapping-daemon  89-06:32:27
gvfsd           89-06:32:24
notification-da 89-06:32:18
gimp-2.4        43-01:20:49
script-fu       43-01:20:43
gnome-terminal  89-06:25:21
gnome-pty-helpe 89-06:25:21
bash            89-06:25:21
f-spot          89-06:25:07
pan             89-06:23:32
avahi-daemon    99-15:14:45
avahi-daemon    99-15:14:45
rhythmbox       46-06:22:51
gconfd-2        46-06:00:12
hald            67-06:43:04
hald-runner     67-06:43:04
hald-addon-inpu 67-06:43:03
hald-addon-cpuf 67-06:43:03
hald-addon-acpi 67-06:43:03
hald-addon-stor 67-06:43:03
bonobo-activati 99-13:45:10
evolution-data- 99-13:42:48
dbus-launch     76-10:44:58
dbus-daemon     76-10:44:58
gnome-vfs-daemo 76-10:44:58
liferea-bin     36-16:18:36
evolution       36-16:18:21
totem-plugin-vi 17-14:42:00
gedit           30-00:46:43
udevd           94-12:00:53
migration/1        02:41:42
ksoftirqd/1        02:41:42
watchdog/1         02:41:42
kondemand/1        02:41:42
iwl3945/1          02:41:42
ata/1              02:41:42
aio/1              02:41:42
kblockd/1          02:41:42
events/1           02:41:42
wpa_supplicant     02:41:15
dhclient           02:41:11
mission-control    02:41:08
telepathy-gabbl    02:41:08
telepathy-salut    02:41:08

I realize this thread is a bit detailed and that no one probably cares. I check my uptime a lot. I put a very strong emphasis on reliability and stability. (Before anyone says anything, I have the latest DSAs in my feed aggregator, and I know what security vulnerabilities are in my kernel.) One hundred days of uptime is not a big deal for a server, but I think it’s pretty nice for a laptop.

I was happy with Ubuntu, but I’m even happier with Debian stable. (Honestly, I get a perverse pleasure from using GNOME 2.22 when everyone else is using GNOME 2.28.) Hopefully there won’t be a bug or kernel vulnerability that makes me restart before Squeeze.

[Red Squirrel]

haha I'm an uptime nazi as well. My online server actually hit 1 year a while back, then it crapped out the day after. I pushed an update to one of my apps and guess I did not test it well enough. Had a memory leak and it just took all the ram. My home servers have only a few days since I recently relocated them. I *could* of done it live, but decided not to.

[Chris Vogel]

My TrackPoint stopped working today. I never use that stupid thing, but I do use the three buttons below the space bar. I tried reloading the kernel module, or at least what I think was the kernel module.

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sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

It froze up. My uptime is now 15 minutes.

[Red Squirrel]

Oh that sucks, when it's something silly like that and you have to reboot. Did the reboot at least fix it?

I remember my DSL modem had an uptime of like 300 days and I rebooted it and it did not fix my issue, that was a bummer.

[Chris Vogel]

Oh that sucks, when it's something silly like that and you have to reboot.  Did the reboot at least fix it?

Yes. Sometime this week I’m going to go through my logs and try to find out what happened.

[Red Squirrel]

That's the nice thing about Linux, at least there's half decent logs most of the time. When Windows craps out for no reason, it rarely leaves any trace of what even happened. Maybe an event log entry that is completely meaningless.