Windows XP Professional uptime
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
I prefer to keep up to date with OS patches, so I find I tend to reboot every second Tuesday in the month.
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
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Like the previous poster said, you have to reboot to keep up with security patches. Plus, unless the computer MUST be on 24/7, there is no point in wasting electricity 16 hours a day while you're asleep or at work.
yer just jealous. Mines been up for 239 days. :)
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yer just jealous. Mines been up for 239 days. :)
Robert Surtees wrote:
yer just jealous. Mines been up for 239 days.
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
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Like the previous poster said, you have to reboot to keep up with security patches. Plus, unless the computer MUST be on 24/7, there is no point in wasting electricity 16 hours a day while you're asleep or at work.
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
there is no point in wasting electricity 16 hours a day
True, but in the OP's defence, the machine could be hibernating. Uptime is time since last reboot, not time since last system power down.
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
Blimey. When did Windows XP get so good that you could run it for longer than a day without it getting bogged down and requiring a reboot? (It took many months to break the reboot habit when I switched to Mac OS X.)
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
My work computer bugs me if I leave it on for more than 2 days. Our IT guys must not trust us or something...
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
That was up for about a year and a half without crashing. It was running a PII Pro which I think was a very stable and good chip.
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
Mine is unusable after a day, the residual RAM usage means 2 gig of RAM is not enough, and I have to reboot.
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Blimey. When did Windows XP get so good that you could run it for longer than a day without it getting bogged down and requiring a reboot? (It took many months to break the reboot habit when I switched to Mac OS X.)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Paul Watson wrote:
When did Windows XP get so good that you could run it for longer than a day without it getting bogged down and requiring a reboot?
It's always been that good, as long as you don't run any services, install any 3rd-party drivers, use only Notepad, and don't type too fast. In fact, i'm rather shocked that you would think so little of the OS as to imply that it couldn't... :rolleyes:
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Mine is unusable after a day, the residual RAM usage means 2 gig of RAM is not enough, and I have to reboot.
Christian Graus Please read this if you don't understand the answer I've given you "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
I'm not sure how long mine would last, it doesn't usually get left on more than a few days. I might turn it off because the fans start to do my head in, or i installed something... But one day? There is software around that will free up your RAM, so if a program has been sucking up ram like some delicious soup and not giving it back, you can free it up.
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
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My work computer bugs me if I leave it on for more than 2 days. Our IT guys must not trust us or something...
Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river. The width of the river increases slightly every day, except when it shrinks. Your budget does not allow for you to use concrete or steel - you can only afford timber and cut stone. Gravity changes from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer
Mine just stops working, they have so many virus/big brother stuff on there that I need to reboot every 48 hrs. I have been known to reboot 2-3 times a day.
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
Latinwiz wrote:
I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days!
I would more be curious just what it is doing over that period of time. I have had my software up for months at a time with not so much as normal variation in memory foot print from the cached landscape. Given the amount of data going through that pipeline would be measured in TBs over even a week's time, I would say a month or two is pretty darn good.
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I'm curious how my personal record of Windows XP uptime compares with other people; I just passed 238 days! http://chmarch.googlepages.com/xpuptime.JPG[^]
238! I just passed 44 at 9.00 today! (I am running to see how long before crash, but it seems I have a wait.)
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JazzJackRabbit wrote:
there is no point in wasting electricity 16 hours a day
True, but in the OP's defence, the machine could be hibernating. Uptime is time since last reboot, not time since last system power down.
Graham Bradshaw wrote:
Uptime is time since last reboot, not time since last system power down.
uptime also doesn't tell you what is running on the machine.... 2/3rds year uptime on an idle box would be quite wasteful, but I guess someone might find something to brag about it. Maybe the rest of us should capture our uptime numbers at 2560x1600 or 5120x1600 to send to him for comparison. :laugh: :laugh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Like the previous poster said, you have to reboot to keep up with security patches. Plus, unless the computer MUST be on 24/7, there is no point in wasting electricity 16 hours a day while you're asleep or at work.
JazzJackRabbit wrote:
there is no point in wasting
Some times I need to remote into mine from home, plus it's running a service to gather data. It's been up for about thirty days at this point.
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We OpenVMS guys too. There was this system I supported once, when I got there to install Y2K patches it had been running for 400+ days. Not just the operating system, but our software (detached processes) hadn't been restarted either. It was a shame to reboot it. :(
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We OpenVMS guys too. There was this system I supported once, when I got there to install Y2K patches it had been running for 400+ days. Not just the operating system, but our software (detached processes) hadn't been restarted either. It was a shame to reboot it. :(
OpenVMS record -> 12 years
