Uptime contest!

[philip]

What's the longest time between restarts on your TC system?

Mine is only a couple of days, because the GUI system freezes after that. I don't know if I should blame jwm or Xvesa. Maybe TC 2.0rc2 with the new flwm will fix it. Anyway ... I'm hoping to start a friendly competition *and* perhaps elicit some useful tips that will help me keep my system running longer.

Here tc is running on a Compaq Evo T20 thin client with a little extra RAM added by me (total 186M). When the window manager and/or X server get stuck, I log in remotely using ssh and restart them. Strictly speaking, this does not affect my little box's "uptime". So I'm asking about "duration of problem-free operation" as well as "uptime" ... and asking people with big scores to share their secrets!

[Juanito]

60+ days - and that was because I needed to reboot to update to a newer version of tc...

[Lee]

60+ days

That beats my record... I have system running ssh and some periodic processes that's been going for 27 days.  The same machine ran DSL for months at a time w/o reboots (for years).  The machines that I actually sit down at rarely run more than a day or two as I'm usually messing with them in one way or another.

[jpeters]

So I'm asking about "duration of problem-free operation" as well as "uptime" ... and asking people with big scores to share their secrets!

I think the secret is RAM.

[Juanito]

Mine was on a 267MHz Pentium II with 512mb ram - all extensions are loaded as tcz (I can't remember how many are loaded, but more than the tc default for loops)

The machine is running as a cups/hplip/samba printer/scanner server for the home network and gets used for general web browsing and uploading tc extensions.

[jpeters]

all extensions are loaded as tcz (I can't remember how many are loaded, but more than the tc default for loops)

I'm wondering if there are any downsides to using lots of loops. I tend to mix tce, tcz, using tcz with larger files so as not to waste a loop on something small. 

[Juanito]

I've been using max_loop=64 for a while now (without actually reaching 64) and didn't see any problems

[Lee]

...a 267MHz Pentium II with 512mb ram - all extensions are loaded as tcz...

Mine is similar, a Compaq Deskpro - Pentium II @ 350 Mhz w/320 MB ram - probably the same basic vintage.

Running tc 1.3 with a mix of tcz and tce extensions (including coreutils and wget), but not hugely many of either.

It runs a periodic wget to keep a Windows web server from going comatose, my custom DDNS updater and dropbear server as well as serving as a backup desktop.