whats your record uptime for a windows XP desktop?

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: Solema

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
lol
This thread is much like people competing in a Chinese penis size contest.

lol.

With any MS OS, I don't see ANY reason to have a machine up for an extended amount of time. All that means is that you aren't downloading critical updates, because some of them require a reboot. I routinely install updates on my XP box and my clients' servers.

This is true. My XP fileserver never sees the light of the internet, so I've had it stock since '03. But my personal workstations I shut down every night.

 

[Quinton McLeod]

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: Solema

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
lol
This thread is much like people competing in a Chinese penis size contest.

lol.

With any MS OS, I don't see ANY reason to have a machine up for an extended amount of time. All that means is that you aren't downloading critical updates, because some of them require a reboot. I routinely install updates on my XP box and my clients' servers.

This is true. My XP fileserver never sees the light of the internet, so I've had it stock since '03. But my personal workstations I shut down every night.

That doesn't help your fileserver if it's doesn't have access to the Internet. Having your PC ON doing absolutely nothing for years means nothing. Now, running a Windows Server over the Internet for 4 years without a single reboot is something I have NEVER EVER in my life time seen before. I will probably never see it in my life time.

Windows servers typically stay online for a few months. *nix servers stay online for YEARS.

 

[Solema]

I'd love to see statistics on frequency of attacks based on server OS. I'd bet that Windows servers get attacked at a FAR greater rate than *nix. Yeah, *nix is absolutely more secure, and is great for specialized applications, but the inherent weaknesses in Windows are compensated for with great things like Active Directory, Group Policy, and great file sharing tools.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: Solema
I'd love to see statistics on frequency of attacks based on server OS. I'd bet that Windows servers get attacked at a FAR greater rate than *nix. Yeah, *nix is absolutely more secure, and is great for specialized applications, but the inherent weaknesses in Windows are compensated for with great things like Active Directory, Group Policy, and great file sharing tools.

1. Windows file sharing sucks. Samba is MUCH more flexible and robust....simple file sharing has killed any argument you ever thought of having in that arena too.

I wouldn't say windows boxes are attacked more, as most hackers don't care what OS a box runs, they just bang away with the whole set of tools that they have no idea how it works. I see MANY a hit in my apache on deb stable logs that look like someone is trying to exploite IIS, and we see many logs on our live IIS servers where folks are trying to hit some of the apache tools. I have seen upwards of 10K SSH login attempts on my box in a day or two. I would hate to see the RDP or VNC attempts against a windows box (I don't think those are logged?). SSH Keys ftw!

Although our *nix boxes seem to have MUCH more uptime then our windows servers (we don't have to reboot between patches as often, and checking what sec updates are in a kernel has allowed us to skip a few of those too). Our www server was at like 470ish days when we shut it down (building was loosing power for longer then our UPS would last)

 

[BurnItDwn]

I had 186 days on a 2K box once ...
I never seem to reach more than about 30 days in XP ...
That said, I have XP running on my gaming box, and windows updates cause the entire system to reboot.
I've had an uptime of 200+ days in Linux
Currently my best uptime on OpenBSD is approaching a month, though I haven't had that OS for very long at all.

 

[Griffinhart]

My Work PC(XP): Is a 1Ghz w/ 385MB of RAM (I hate this machine) goes for weeks of daily use without reboots. It's only rebooted when the company pushes out a SMS package that requires it.

My Home PC: The uptime on this rig is fairly low. I already have one PC in the house running 24/7 so I shut it down every night to conserve energy. Usually, if I'm not home or not awake, it's off.

My Media Center(two years old): A month and a half has been the record. I've only needed to restart it for patches and powerlosses. It's pretty much a turn it on and forget about it system.

I wouldn't say windows boxes are attacked more, as most hackers don't care what OS a box runs, they just bang away with the whole set of tools that they have no idea how it works. I see MANY a hit in my apache on deb stable logs that look like someone is trying to exploite IIS, and we see many logs on our live IIS servers where folks are trying to hit some of the apache tools.

I would tend to agree with you here. For a couple of years I was running a Windows Domino Server with Web access at home (I support Notes for a living so It was for playing around with) and I constantly saw access attempts with people trying to log in as root even though it was a windows box.

 

[DarkManX]

im up to 30 days! and this is my primary pc.

 

[Captante]

Not sure exactly, but I estimate 2-3 weeks & then almost always restated because of software updates or MS patchs which required it.

 

[Bluestealth]

Originally posted by: amdskip

Originally posted by: WhoBeDaPlaya
5 months on my fileserver, ~40 days on my HTPC (BeyondTV 4.5 is rock solid!).
Main/work rigs - couple of days

Same as me, I love BeyondTV and I don't know what I did before without it.

My Beyond TV server only restarts for power failures , The server is rock solid, the client has only recently become as stable. BTW I upgraded to 4.6 for Vista(Client), just as stable and no wierd divx issues yet, as with some "other" versions of 4.
I still want to convert to a HDTV Mythbox, but I am waiting a bit longer until I can ditch cox cable for Fios.

 

[erickj92]

I only go about 2-3 weeks and need to re-boot, maily cuz my windows always updates and re-boots while im sleeping

 

[postaled]

Could just be lame and standby/hibernate the machine and shove it in a closet and forget about it for a few years and then bam, long uptime from cheatinng! boo cheatin

 

[Zolty]

somewhere around 45 Days on my at home workhorse computer. what finally brought it down was some failed capisitors.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: Solema

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
lol
This thread is much like people competing in a Chinese penis size contest.

lol.

With any MS OS, I don't see ANY reason to have a machine up for an extended amount of time. All that means is that you aren't downloading critical updates, because some of them require a reboot. I routinely install updates on my XP box and my clients' servers.

This is true. My XP fileserver never sees the light of the internet, so I've had it stock since '03. But my personal workstations I shut down every night.

That doesn't help your fileserver if it's doesn't have access to the Internet. Having your PC ON doing absolutely nothing for years means nothing. Now, running a Windows Server over the Internet for 4 years without a single reboot is something I have NEVER EVER in my life time seen before. I will probably never see it in my life time.

Windows servers typically stay online for a few months. *nix servers stay online for YEARS.

Show me a server that's been online for years and I'll show you a server that hasn't been properly patched. Foolishness.

 

[Kur]

In my networking class in HS we were assigned to certain offices with computers within the school to do his work for him. We stumbled upon a Dell machine in the back corner of this office with no monitor and this machine had not been turned off for 2 years. We talked to my teacher about it and he said about 2 years ago he was working on a bunch of them to ship out and said he had thought he shut them all down. So we grab a monitor plug it in, what do we see?

"Windows is shutting off" still on the screen...

 

[Genx87]

I could probably run the thing for months, but I refuse to pay the electric bill to do so So it is usually turned on and off once a day.

I did for shats and giggles run my Win2k box in 2001 for over 90s days without a reboot.

I have servers here that run for a couple of months before updating requires a reboot. I did have a single XP machine here that stopped checking into our WSUS because it was up for over 6 months hehe. A reboot got it back and updated

 

[MiniDoom]

I patch my computers. Security is more important to me than system uptime.

 

[Mannard]

My custom XP box serving as FTP and IRC server is at 443 days and counting. I'm shooting for 2 years before I shut down for cleaning.

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