[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <c5dead8c-9266-486a-91e4-5248fad84baa at q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
	John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> On May 11, 5:23 pm, Johnny Billquist <b... at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2011-05-11 07.09, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > In article<d768c138-27f6-40fb-8248-57a4e5aea... at y31g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
>> >    BillPedersen<peder... at ccsscorp.com>  writes:
>> >> On May 10, 2:54 pm, 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?
>> >> It has always been great to have these long and productive uptimes on
>> >> OpenVMS.
>> >> While there has not been the determination of the exact criteria for
>> >> evaluation everyone should know that there will be an "Availability
>> >> Award" presented at this year's Connect OpenVMS Boot Camp at the
>> >> Sheraton Needham in September.  Sue Skonetski is working with the HP
>> >> OpenVMS organization to define the criteria.  Once it is defined we
>> >> will make sure to publish so people can submit their sites for
>> >> consideration.
>>
>> > server1# uname -a
>> > FreeBSD server1.cs.uofs.edu 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7 04:42:56 UTC 2006     r... at opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
>> > server1# uptime
>> >   9:05AM  up 4914 days, 19:54, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>> > server1#
>>
>> > What do I win?
>>
>> How did you get near 5000 days from a system built 5 years ago? There is
>> only about 1800 days in 5 years...
>>
>>         Johnny
> I noticed that too, then later I read he said it was meant to be a
> joke? Any real system with load averages of 0.0 (as this one appeared
> to have) over an extended period would be a joke too.

Actually, the load averages are quite real.  Slow time for the students
and we have multiple general purpose servers avaialable.  Not the "1 user".
that was me getting the uptime.

But, all of this is, as usual, just plain silly.  The only thing needed
to get a long uptime is "time".  I could easily build a system that did
nothing and was backed up with emough power sources to guarantee it never
went down.  Eventually, it would have some ridiculous uptime and it would
have accomplished...   wait for it......  NOTHING.

On another note, with all the VMing of systems today I wonder what would
happen if I built  a system started it running, took a snapshot, shut it
down and then restarted it from the snapshot (note, not reboot, restart)
10 years later?  Would it report an uptime of 10 years?

bill

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