[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<2ed009ed-5982-41b8-b048-bebdc83975f2 at z37g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>,
 abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On May 10, 3:11 pm, Marc Schlensog <mschlens+n... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 May 2011 11:54:38 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > abrsvc <dansabrservi... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > This is the best so far at my current site.  This would be longer had
> > > we not moved datacenters...
> >
> > > OpenVMS V7.1-2  on node xxx  10-MAY-2011 13:52:46.60  Uptime  842
> > > 20:38:06
> >
> > > Can anyone beat this?
> >
> > Here's a story from 
> > 2006:http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=06/01/08/4531954
> 
> Close, but I would argue that the "cluster" itself could remain up for
> 10 years with individual nodes being up for far less.  The posting I
> did was for a single machine.  I seem to recall a record for a VAX in
> the 5 year range, but can't find the reference.  The machine I posted
> will need to be upgraded to V7.3-2 soon, so the record for us here
> will soon stop...
> 

I'm afraid I've forgotten the details, but approximately a decade ago we 
had an Alpha/VMS patch which required a full cluster reboot, since one 
of the messaging protocols changed.  It might have been hardware 
specific (e.g. Memory Channel)  There were no Vaxes in that particular 
cluster.

-- 
Paul Sture