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Re: [LUG] Moblin now booting in 16 seconds

 

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Neil Williams wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:51:38 +0100 (BST)
> Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Neil Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Seriously though, why is everyone still rebooting?
>>>
>>> neil@holly:~$ w
>>> 11:36:59 up 187 days, 16:10,  7 users,  load average: 0.12, 0.47, 0.70
>>
>> I scoff at your  your feeble 187 days and challenge you with:
>>
>>   11:47:49 up 1261 days, 21:50,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
> Umm, I think it might be worth updating the kernel on that box - was
> there a 2.6 kernel available 1,261 days ago?
> ;-)

It's probably worth update everything on that box, including the box 
itself..

However, it's running a little custom app. and it's happy to do so until 
it's finally retired.

And yes, there was a 2.6 kernel 1261 days ago:

Linux drogon 2.6.11 #1 SMP Mon Jun 6 16:31:32 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

It's running Debian Sarge too.

This one however is actually much older although the uptime isn't as good 
on the surface:

  14:38:12 up 204 days, 23:38,  1 user,  load average: 0.12, 1.77, 2.98

Linux lion 2.4.27 #1 Wed Nov 10 13:26:50 GMT 2004 i686 unknown

has a somewhat older kernel and distro - Woody. The counter has actually 
wrapped the 497 day limit, so it's really 701 days.. I rebooted it back 
then to upgrade it's RAM.

Gordon


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