Windows XP Professional uptime
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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.)
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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.
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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...
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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:
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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
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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 just really hope you have a good antivirus program that you keep up to date and a strong firewall because you've missed some pretty critical security updates. People who never/hardly ever apply updates are a serious problem because they are basically begging for their computers to be exploited and recruited into a botnet. So here's hoping you are responsible enough to not let your computer become a zombie.
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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:
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?
My development box has been running weeks-at-a-time for years doing heavy development and anything else I can throw at it. XP Pro is extremely solid. -CB :D
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Paul Watson wrote:
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?
My development box has been running weeks-at-a-time for years doing heavy development and anything else I can throw at it. XP Pro is extremely solid. -CB :D
Cool. Got any tips? None of the Windows XP guys here at work go a day without rebooting. They do mainly dev work on them too (though not Visual Studio. More Eclipse and other Java stuff.)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Cool. Got any tips? None of the Windows XP guys here at work go a day without rebooting. They do mainly dev work on them too (though not Visual Studio. More Eclipse and other Java stuff.)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
Hey Paul, Hmm ... that sounds odd to me. We have 15 or so developers here in the shop and I seldom hear about anyone having to restart their system very frequently at all. Are you certain that they're all up to SP2? We're doing desktop and web development - IIS, etc. I hear of very few major problems with the machines themselves. I've always been pretty conservative in the way I set my machines up - but even there I've got dozens and dozens of applications, third-party development controls, etc. For development I'm using VS.Net 2005 and VS6 (A lot of our code is still in VB6). I definitely stay away from Beta versions of anything. Same thing with my personal machine at the house. Once I got it set up and operating I've pretty much left it alone for nearly 2 years now. About the only thing that even comes close to "crashing" the thing would be games I run on it. Other than that it's pretty awful stable. The machines we use are fairly stock - HP desktops, not quite bleeding-edge. P-4 and Dual-Core machines. My Dell at the house is a P4 with XP Pro on it and it's been 100% reliable so far. Wish I had something more concrete to offer. -CB
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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 agree with a few others: this isn't a good point of comparison till you define "uptime" and the amount of work the computer is doing. I define uptime as "doing things that matter" and my computer run development IDE's, virtual machines, high-bandwith P2P apps, etc. It's a workhorse (or I'm a slave-driver...). Unfortunately, my new computer was built for Vista, so I have Vista Home Premium and cant switch to XP. So, for a point of comparison, what's my uptime? I think the record, without having something crash, is 6 hours. Vista is a piece of s***. It can't even close some applications when they mess up. Every night (or morning) I have to physically power it off, because shutdown won't work. (rest of system does, just not that) Then, start in safe mode, then shutdown, then start normally. Then, things work for a while. I've reset to factory conditions and done a few variations, same problems. Poor design... no uptime. (Can't use Linux till I get internet to work) God, I miss Windows XP...
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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.
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.
I must agree. Why waste precious electricity if the box is not a server, or at least doing something useful, like protein folding, or SETI units, or, or, or.... you get the picture. Consider this: the amount of electricity your computer uses could be used to power 4 or more 60-watt incandescent bulbs, or approximately 20 or more flourescent bulbs. In the latter case, that could be enough to light one or two houses!
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