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Not something you see often

# uptime
22:52:34 up 206 days, 23:19, 1 user, load average: 109.87, 62.86, 27.35

Don't ask :)

Posted by kasia on August 19, 2004 11:01 PM |

Comments

Ha! What on earth were you doing?

Posted by: George | August 20, 2004 05:36 AM

That's got to be some kind of record.

Posted by: pjm | August 20, 2004 06:46 AM

Wow, that's a long time to stay awake... Maybe you should switch to decaf?

Posted by: Greg Wilson | August 20, 2004 08:26 AM

My guess: a broken apache configuration on dslreports caused it to keep on respawning on every connection request.

Posted by: fluffy | August 20, 2004 09:23 AM

Nah.. nothing so bad as that.. Just a simple wedged cron job.

Posted by: kasia | August 20, 2004 10:44 AM

alan@master:~$ uptime
11:12:14 up 147 days, 20:16, 74 users, load average: 0.69, 0.93, 1.09

Still a bit low on both cases :)

Posted by: Arcterex | August 20, 2004 02:09 PM

The point of Kasia's post was the load average, not the length of uptime but what the heck. On an old Sun Ultra 5 running Solaris 5.6:

->uptime
11:21am up 1035 day(s), 16:54, 5 users, load average: 1.09, 1.04, 1.03

Posted by: Kev Spenccer | August 20, 2004 02:23 PM

I wish people could've seen the old pop server at the ISP I work for -- a SunFire 6800 with 24 CPUs and 18 gigs/ram. We would regularly see it at a sustained load of 40, with an uptime well over a year. Ah, the delights of running qpopper for >100k users. :)

Posted by: Jonathan Martin | August 20, 2004 05:06 PM

I hate it when I get my cron wedged.

Every now and then I'll get runaway processes on my boxes (especially this Debian box) and I'll show loadavgs that are in the hundreds as well.. fun for all! (especially trying to get contrl of your computer back)

Posted by: Eric | August 20, 2004 05:13 PM