A branch for my company has one remaining Solaris box that keeps up a service or two with a ridiculous uptime and they recently built a new facility. In a meeting we were discussing the move plan for their entire IT kit and they asked me about the feasibility of moving the Solaris box across town on an UPS so they wouldn't have to shut it down. I kindly asked them to reconsider because while they might keep power applied for the whole ride it'd be unlikely that the disks would survive the trip.

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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