Windows XP Professional uptime
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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
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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.
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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.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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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
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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.)
------------------------------------ "It's So much better than a ZX81" (Alan Brown - Technology Teacher 1983 regarding a ZX Spectrum) "Ugh, Yuk" (Same Guy 1988 about a QL!)
Funny! I have mine for 177hrs, 22 mins & 10 secs :^) - mind you I hibernate to save electricity... :cool: I have noticed weird behaviour, sometimes usb devices plugged in fails, or winblows exploder goes funny with the filesystem :wtf: , why, I remember writing code to read from a file, and for some reason, it acted like an endless bucket so to speak, quite literally, the pointer (not programming type) within the filesystem never saw the eof and it bugged the hell out of me for a couple hours, and the program ran into an infinite loop...until I did a reboot...weird! :confused: There's something odd there about it - dunno, guess it has to do with uptime/hibernate? This pc is 2gb ram, 160gb sata, 3.2gz ht w uptodate patches...very very peculiar. Measuring uptime is more for *nix (or more aptly non ms systems that are ahem cough cough 'stable' cough ahem)!!! :) Take care! Tom
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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[^]
Reminds me of the time we discovered and NT 4 server that had been up for 3 1/2 years running an important service, but was doing it so well we all just forgot about it.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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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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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 record for XP is 12 hours of use, but that could mean several days since I always use standby. It was a laptop BTW. My Vista x64 Ultimate box has run for upto 38 days, and then it was only because of Updates. That machine hasn't had a hard boot since December, when I built it. :)
Total geek! :)
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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.
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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
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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 might probably last indefinately, but the wireless kills itself after about 4 hours, and refuses to see my router, or connect to it, when it does. Repairing does nothing, and rebooting the router has the same effect. Thus, I have to reboot. I really wanna know what's causing this, aswell, as it's happened with all of my wireless adapters.
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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[^]
We don't keep track, but we supply SCADA systems to users who run 24/7 and those are often based on XP pro (at least for the clients). As far as I know they don't turn them off and they don't keep complaining to us - even though they have service contracts.
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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:
Citizen 20.1.01
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
:laugh:
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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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 can't beat your record but I reboot maybe once a month, usually because some newly installed piece of software insists upon it. I hibernate my machine overnight - surely one of Windows' most unappreciated features. I use the machine for software development so it gets a reasonable workout. I am a bit picky about what I install on it, but I am running IIS, SQL Server, CVS server, VS 2005, Photoshop, Outlook, ZoneAlarm, Mozy Backup and various other assorted apps (including IE, of course) as and when. I like XP a lot - it does all the things I want without making too much fuss about it. And it is *much* more stable than my Vista laptop.
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
