Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime

An anonymous reader writes "After running uninterrupted for 3737 days, this humble Sun 280R server running Solaris 9 was shut down. At the time of making the video it was idle, the last service it had was removed sometime last year. A tribute video was made with some feelings about Sun, Solaris, the walk to the data center and freeing a machine from internet-slavery."

Comments

So what did it do all that time?

[cod3r_]

A *nix machine being idle for 3737 days is not all that interesting.

Re:So what did it do all that time?

[crutchy]

If there's fail over (and there should be if uptime is important)

i agree... if you're responsible for a single server performing a mission critical function with no fail over, you may as well just fire yourself

Re:So what did it do all that time?

[crontabminusell]

Somewhere at my last job, there was a Solaris 8 machine with over 4000 days uptime, that everybody hated to do anything with, but one person loved it and refused to migrate the last service that was still on it to something more modern.

Uptime is irrelevant for an individual server, anyway. If there's fail over (and there should be if uptime is important), take it down and update the kernel for security reasons, who cares?

It's like Cory Doctorow said in When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth:

“Greedo will rise again,” Felix said. “I’ve got a 486 downstairs with over five years of uptime. It’s going to break my heart to reboot it.”

“What the everlasting shit do you use a 486 for?”

“Nothing. But who shuts down a machine with five years uptime? That’s like euthanizing your grandmother.”

T'ain't nothin...

[Anonymous Coward]

Last place I worked at still used token ring. Packet-Packet-Give baby!

Wow!

[NathanWoodruff]

That is 3730 more days than Windows 95 could stay up.

Last message in system log was . . .

[StefanJ]

. . . Mar 12 11:57:03 hedvig kernel:WILL I DREAM?

Re:Last message in system log was . . .

[cbiltcliffe]

I was thinking:

  Mar 12 11:57:03 hedvig kernel: So long, and thanks for all the bits.......

taken down early as a precaution

[Anonymous Coward]

In another 57 years the uptime command might've had rollover issues.

Re:Uptime fetish

[Anonymous Coward]

Boy, you must be fun at parties.

Surprised no one posted this yet

[yakatz]

http://xkcd.com/686/

Re:Surprised no one posted this yet

[jupiterssj4]

Or this uptime-related one http://xkcd.com/705/

a terrible disturbance the /src

[Thud457]

Netcraft confirms Bill Joy just felt a chill like someone walked on his grave.



hey, that's three jokes there, take your pick.

Re:This is news?

[amicusNYCL]

I work at a Very Large Company (who must remain nameless.) We've got Solaris boxes that were last rebooted in the 90's. Yes. Really. Running Solaris 2.6, even.

I'm willing to hazard a guess who you work for. Let's see.. you're running servers that have an OS that was released in 1997, and apparently you haven't rebooted them since. Almost like your company is stuck in the mid- to late-90s. You're the only Slashdotter I've seen with an AOL instant messenger screen name in their profile. That can't be a coincidence. You work for AOL. They have you designing the latest Free CD labels.

Re:This is news?

[shafty]

Interesting, I left a Very Large Company in the late 90's after having set up a few Solaris 2.x machines for our R&D projects. I had a Quake server running on one of them. There was a lot of incentive to keep that server up.

My /. user number? I'm honored!

[Shag]

I know, I know, it's just a coincidence...