Mike,

Believe it or not, both VMS and Digital Unix systems were the same way.   They would go months and years without rebooting.

The US Navy had two hospital ships, the "Mercy" and the "Hope".  One stationed on the East Coast and one in San Diego.   The one on the East Coast used WNT for the servers and the one in San Diego used GNU/Linux.    The ship using WNT had to have twice as many servers as the one in San Diego because the Navy rules said that a WNT server HAD to be rebooted every 30 days, whereas there was no such requirement for GNU/Linux.   Since a Naval deployment could last longer than 30 days, and since they needed the server services to be up constantly that whole time, they needed twice as many WNT servers.

md

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 8:58 AM Mike Peckar via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Fun Story, Maddog. Around 20 yrs ago I was consulting for Bloomberg in Skillman, NJ, a big Solaris shop. The HP app I was working with bellied up with memory leaks and I suggested they reboot that server. I was told flat out they don't reboot Solaris servers period. They cleaned up the mess and isolated where in the HP code that the pointer was lost, leaving me the not-so-fun task of filing the bug report with HP.

Mike

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 7:39 PM Jon "maddog" Hall via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Tim,

What was the reason for shutting it down?

This reminds me of a story from years ago where a young friend contacted me before a trip to the University of New Hampshire for a Linux LUG meeting.

He asked me if I would go to a particular dorm and knock on the door of what had been his door room.   I was to ask if I could unplug the box that was in the corner of the closet in the room.   The system had been running for five years in his former dorm room and he had forgotten the login password.   He did not want the machine back, just wanted it unplugged.

A young woman answered the door, heard my explanation and let me unplug the machine.   "We were afraid to unplug it" she said.

Your machine beat his machine on uptime.

md

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 5:07 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I just shutdown a linux machine with 3169 days of uptime!
It had userland processes that have been actively running since 2013!
Tim.

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