[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-05-11 11.01, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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?

I think just editing the output is much easier... :-)

	Johnny