SCO Announces Winners of Longest Running Server Competition

[Bob Bailin]

"SCO Announces Winners of Longest Running Server Competition at Annual
Customer Conference

"Eckerd and Zenez Recognized by SCO for Longest Running UNIX Servers Eckerd
runs uninterrupted for a decade on OpenServer, Zenez runs on UNIX for 20
years"





When SCO announced this contest a few months ago, I thought they were
looking for the longest *continuously* running SCO server. With all the
occasional routine maintenance that one has to do on a typical system,
I knew I didn't have a chance. I expected the winner to have a system
with a continuous uptime of 2 or 3 years possibly. (No more due to
the mandatory Y2K upgrades.)

But from the content of this article, it seems that they chose 2 worthy
companies who have simply *used* SCO systems on a continual basis,
with breaks for maintenance and upgrades, for 11 and 20 years,
respectively.

Since my company started with Xenix 2.3.4GT back in 1991, I feel a little
bit
left out. Not that I feel that I should have won, because I know that
there are many people on the ng with years longer experience
using SCO in a single company.

So did the right companies win this contest in your opinion?

Bob

[tony@aplawrence.com]

Bob Bailin <72027.3605@compuserve.com> wrote:

>"SCO Announces Winners of Longest Running Server Competition at Annual
>Customer Conference

>"Eckerd and Zenez Recognized by SCO for Longest Running UNIX Servers Eckerd
>runs uninterrupted for a decade on OpenServer, Zenez runs on UNIX for 20
>years"

>When SCO announced this contest a few months ago, I thought they were
>looking for the longest *continuously* running SCO server. With all the
>occasional routine maintenance that one has to do on a typical system,
>I knew I didn't have a chance. I expected the winner to have a system
>with a continuous uptime of 2 or 3 years possibly. (No more due to
>the mandatory Y2K upgrades.)

>But from the content of this article, it seems that they chose 2 worthy
>companies who have simply *used* SCO systems on a continual basis,
>with breaks for maintenance and upgrades, for 11 and 20 years,
>respectively.

>Since my company started with Xenix 2.3.4GT back in 1991, I feel a little
>bit
>left out. Not that I feel that I should have won, because I know that
>there are many people on the ng with years longer experience
>using SCO in a single company.

>So did the right companies win this contest in your opinion?

I read it the same way you did.

Poorly phrased, but too late now.

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[Mike Brown]

Bob Bailin wrote:

>
> "SCO Announces Winners of Longest Running Server Competition at Annual
> Customer Conference
>
> "Eckerd and Zenez Recognized by SCO for Longest Running UNIX Servers Eckerd
> runs uninterrupted for a decade on OpenServer, Zenez runs on UNIX for 20
> years"
>
> When SCO announced this contest a few months ago, I thought they were
> looking for the longest *continuously* running SCO server. With all the
> occasional routine maintenance that one has to do on a typical system,
> I knew I didn't have a chance. I expected the winner to have a system
> with a continuous uptime of 2 or 3 years possibly. (No more due to
> the mandatory Y2K upgrades.)
>
> But from the content of this article, it seems that they chose 2 worthy
> companies who have simply *used* SCO systems on a continual basis,
> with breaks for maintenance and upgrades, for 11 and 20 years,
> respectively.
>
> Since my company started with Xenix 2.3.4GT back in 1991, I feel a little
> bit
> left out. Not that I feel that I should have won, because I know that
> there are many people on the ng with years longer experience
> using SCO in a single company.
>
> So did the right companies win this contest in your opinion?
>
> Bob

I read and misunderstood the contest also. I guess that makes Boyd a winner
for getting the rules right.

Anyone care to post the longest uninterrupted up time. At one customers site
a 5.0.4 SMP system was up for just over 400 days, at almost 100% utilization.
It would erase a Progress database, get a data dump from the primary machine,
reload the database, back it up to tape, and run some large reports. Towards
the end it was taking 21.5 to 23 hours everyday at full load to finish. I ran
a "netstat -m" on the machine and it took a minute to realize that the numbers
were so large that the whole screen was garbled, I though the command had gone
bad.

Under normal load I have some customers servers that have run around 700 days,
but the came down for service.

Anyone else?

Mike
--
Michael Brown

The Kingsway Group

[Stuart J. Browne]

> I read and misunderstood the contest also. I guess that makes Boyd a
winner

> for getting the rules right.
>
> Anyone care to post the longest uninterrupted up time. At one customers

site

> a 5.0.4 SMP system was up for just over 400 days, at almost 100%

utilization.

> It would erase a Progress database, get a data dump from the primary

machine,

> reload the database, back it up to tape, and run some large reports.

Towards

> the end it was taking 21.5 to 23 hours everyday at full load to finish.

I ran

> a "netstat -m" on the machine and it took a minute to realize that the

numbers

> were so large that the whole screen was garbled, I though the command had

gone

> bad.
>
> Under normal load I have some customers servers that have run around 700

days,

> but the came down for service.

We had a server that was using a custom written app with roughly 120 users
up for just shy of 500 before bringing it down for maintenance.

Now, I think the best client box we've got out there is 430 days, but
that's on a Linux box.. *hide* :)

I do have a number of servers which have lost count of their uptime days
(which from memory was a wrap at 248 or something days).

3:50pm up 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00
4:03pm up 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Longest current uptime on a SCO box:

2:51pm up 493 days, 15:45, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00

much fun. These 3 are from 'backup' (DR) machines, thus no users. They do
serve as RDBMS servers for other purposes though, as well as data
mirroring.

some high ranking Linux boxes:

3:04pm up 423 days, 13:34, 4 users, load average: 0.37, 0.34, 0.29
4:17pm up 467 days, 3:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
2:48pm up 493 days, 6:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00

They just keep going.. ;) 'net gateway's and mail/web servers.

fun..

bkx

[Darryl Krasman]

Mike Brown wrote:

> Anyone care to post the longest uninterrupted up time.

?jul(2003,8,24)-jul(2000,12,10)

987

Client's Red Hat Linux 6.2 box last booted dec 10th, 2000 for 987 days :-)