Re: Uptime for OpenVMS

From	billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups	comp.os.vms
Subject	Re: Uptime for OpenVMS
Date	2011-05-11 17:01 +0000
Organization	Computing Sciences Dept., University of Scranton
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In article <c5dead8c-9266-486a-91e4-5248fad84baa@q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
	John Wallace <johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> On May 11, 5:23 pm, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2011-05-11 07.09, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > In article<d768c138-27f6-40fb-8248-57a4e5aea...@y31g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
>> >    BillPedersen<peder...@ccsscorp.com>  writes:
>> >> On May 10, 2:54 pm, abrsvc<dansabrservi...@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> >>> This is the best so far at my current site.  This would be longer had
>> >>> we not moved datacenters...
>>
>> >>> OpenVMS V7.1-2  on node xxx  10-MAY-2011 13:52:46.60  Uptime  842
>> >>> 20:38:06
>>
>> >>> Can anyone beat this?
>> >> It has always been great to have these long and productive uptimes on
>> >> OpenVMS.
>> >> While there has not been the determination of the exact criteria for
>> >> evaluation everyone should know that there will be an "Availability
>> >> Award" presented at this year's Connect OpenVMS Boot Camp at the
>> >> Sheraton Needham in September.  Sue Skonetski is working with the HP
>> >> OpenVMS organization to define the criteria.  Once it is defined we
>> >> will make sure to publish so people can submit their sites for
>> >> consideration.
>>
>> > server1# uname -a
>> > FreeBSD server1.cs.uofs.edu 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7 04:42:56 UTC 2006     r...@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386
>> > server1# uptime
>> >   9:05AM  up 4914 days, 19:54, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>> > server1#
>>
>> > What do I win?
>>
>> How did you get near 5000 days from a system built 5 years ago? There is
>> only about 1800 days in 5 years...
>>
>>         Johnny
> I noticed that too, then later I read he said it was meant to be a
> joke? Any real system with load averages of 0.0 (as this one appeared
> to have) over an extended period would be a joke too.

Actually, the load averages are quite real.  Slow time for the students
and we have multiple general purpose servers avaialable.  Not the "1 user".
that was me getting the uptime.

But, all of this is, as usual, just plain silly.  The only thing needed
to get a long uptime is "time".  I could easily build a system that did
nothing and was backed up with emough power sources to guarantee it never
went down.  Eventually, it would have some ridiculous uptime and it would
have accomplished...   wait for it......  NOTHING.

On another note, with all the VMing of systems today I wonder what would
happen if I built  a system started it running, took a snapshot, shut it
down and then restarted it from the snapshot (note, not reboot, restart)
10 years later?  Would it report an uptime of 10 years?

bill

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Uptime for OpenVMS abrsvc <dansabrservices@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-10 11:54 -0700
  Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Marc Schlensog <mschlens+news@gmail.com> - 2011-05-10 21:11 +0200
    Re: Uptime for OpenVMS abrsvc <dansabrservices@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-10 12:23 -0700
      Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-10 15:59 -0500
      Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-11 13:59 +0200
  Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Rich Jordan <jordan@ccs4vms.com> - 2011-05-10 16:21 -0700
    Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Rich Jordan <jordan@ccs4vms.com> - 2011-05-13 09:59 -0700
  Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Neil Rieck <n.rieck@sympatico.ca> - 2011-05-11 03:38 -0700
    Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-11 07:32 -0500
      Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-11 13:04 +0000
    Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-05-11 17:20 -0400
  Re: Uptime for OpenVMS BillPedersen <pedersen@ccsscorp.com> - 2011-05-11 04:01 -0700
    Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-11 13:09 +0000
      Re: Uptime for OpenVMS JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-05-11 09:15 -0400
        Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-11 14:55 +0000
          Re: Uptime for OpenVMS ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-05-17 16:22 +0100
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) - 2011-05-17 18:35 +0000
              Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Keith Parris <keithparris_deletethis@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-17 14:15 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-05-17 22:48 +0100
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS seasoned_geek <roland@logikalsolutions.com> - 2011-05-21 08:54 -0700
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-25 10:30 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-05-17 23:19 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-18 11:25 +0200
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2011-05-17 20:41 +0200
              Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-05-17 16:37 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2011-05-17 22:47 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-05-17 22:33 +0100
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-18 09:54 -0500
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-21 06:45 +0200
              Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-18 09:50 -0500
              Re: Uptime for OpenVMS seasoned_geek <roland@logikalsolutions.com> - 2011-05-21 08:25 -0700
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-18 09:44 -0500
              Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-05-18 11:15 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-18 09:30 -0700
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-05-18 21:08 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-18 19:13 -0700
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2011-05-19 11:31 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-23 13:10 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Syltrem" <syltremzulu@videotron.ca> - 2011-05-19 13:22 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS John Wallace <johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-19 10:53 -0700
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-21 06:36 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-18 11:59 -0500
      Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.org.uk> - 2011-05-11 16:43 +0100
        Re: Uptime for OpenVMS JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-05-11 12:47 -0400
      Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-11 10:23 -0600
        Re: Uptime for OpenVMS John Wallace <johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-05-11 09:48 -0700
          Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-11 17:01 +0000
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-11 11:02 -0600
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-11 18:13 +0000
              Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-11 18:46 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-11 18:59 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-11 19:12 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-11 17:28 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-12 00:06 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-11 18:37 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-12 09:08 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-12 08:36 -0500
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-12 14:12 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Bob Eager <rde42@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-11 19:26 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-11 20:40 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Bob Eager <rde42@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-11 21:12 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.org.uk> - 2011-05-11 23:33 +0100
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Bob Eager <rde42@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-12 05:49 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Steve Thompson <smt@vgersoft.com> - 2011-05-12 16:56 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-13 01:21 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Bob Eager <rde42@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-13 06:01 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 00:54 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 01:13 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Bob Eager <rde42@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-13 07:32 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 01:49 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Bob Eager <rde42@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-13 08:45 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Steve Thompson <smt@vgersoft.com> - 2011-05-13 11:38 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 11:18 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-05-13 17:24 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-05-13 13:38 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 12:45 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-05-13 15:11 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-05-13 21:18 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-05-14 02:35 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-05-13 23:24 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-14 02:32 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS seasoned_geek <roland@logikalsolutions.com> - 2011-05-21 08:09 -0700
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-05-14 13:24 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-05-14 11:04 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Robert A. Brooks" <rab@aitchpee.com> - 2011-05-16 11:24 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-18 11:34 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "John Reagan" <johnrreagan@earthlink.net> - 2011-05-18 07:03 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS seasoned_geek <roland@logikalsolutions.com> - 2011-05-21 07:54 -0700
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Robert A. Brooks" <rab@aitchpee.com> - 2011-05-23 10:00 -0400
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-14 02:30 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-14 09:28 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout-remove@this-gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 15:41 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-14 20:55 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-15 17:10 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Single Stage to Orbit <alex.buell@munted.org.uk> - 2011-05-15 20:17 +0100
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-18 11:37 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS seasoned_geek <roland@logikalsolutions.com> - 2011-05-21 08:13 -0700
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS seasoned_geek <roland@logikalsolutions.com> - 2011-05-21 08:12 -0700
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-13 21:12 +0200
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Bob Eager <rde42@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-13 19:43 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 14:27 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-13 20:05 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 14:28 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Bob Eager <rde42@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-13 19:41 +0000
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 11:16 -0600
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-16 15:49 -0500
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-18 09:59 -0500
                Re: Uptime for OpenVMS ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-05-17 16:31 +0100
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2011-05-12 09:22 -0500
          Re: Uptime for OpenVMS glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-05-11 18:09 +0000
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Bob Eager <rde42@spamcop.net> - 2011-05-11 19:23 +0000
        Re: Uptime for OpenVMS JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-05-11 12:56 -0400
          Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-11 11:04 -0600
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-05-11 17:20 +0000
              Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-11 11:52 -0600
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-05-11 13:21 -0400
          Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield@gmail.com> - 2011-05-11 12:16 -0700
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS jbriggs444 <jbriggs444@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 05:45 -0700
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-12 08:17 -0500
          Re: Uptime for OpenVMS onedbguru <onedbguru@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-11 17:03 -0700
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-05-12 11:08 +0200
          Re: Uptime for OpenVMS jbriggs444 <jbriggs444@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 05:30 -0700
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-12 08:39 -0500
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Henry Crun <mike@rechtman.com> - 2011-05-12 18:41 +0300
        Re: Uptime for OpenVMS seasoned_geek <roland@logikalsolutions.com> - 2011-05-13 08:49 -0700
          Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 11:19 -0600
            Re: Uptime for OpenVMS billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-05-13 17:57 +0000
              Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-13 12:46 -0600
              Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-05-13 15:16 -0400
  Re: Uptime for OpenVMS "R.A.Omond" <Roy.Omond@BlueBubble.UK.Com> - 2011-05-11 13:58 +0100
    Re: Uptime for OpenVMS MG <marcogbNO@SPAMxs4all.nl> - 2011-05-11 15:31 +0200
      Re: Uptime for OpenVMS abrsvc <dansabrservices@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-11 06:37 -0700
      Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Rich Jordan <jordan@ccs4vms.com> - 2011-05-11 07:42 -0700
  Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Homer Shoemaker <homer.shoemaker@gmail.com> - 2011-05-12 09:07 -0700
  Re: Uptime for OpenVMS Joe Bloggs <JBloggs@acme.com> - 2011-05-12 09:35 -0700

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