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On 09/04/13 16:08, Simon Avery wrote: > Not bad. I can't beat this, can anyone else? > > http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1199529 > > Back in the hospital we had a Sun Fire 25k beast back in the days, which ran non-stop for years and years - it had hot swap everything, you could literally pull system boards, I/O boards, power supplies, any part of it at all for any reason and it would just keep running. Amazing piece of kit, but it certainly didn't manage 16 years of uptime. Was turned off finally because it just wasn't very powerful compared to modern x86_64 commodity hardware and it used more electricity than the LHC. Ksplice can apply kernel patches without rebooting, so if you're either on Oracle Linux (they bought the company a while back) or a supported other OS, you don't actually need to reboot for kernel patching anymore. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq