On Wednesday 08 July 2015 03:39:07 Felix Miata wrote:
Russell Brown composed on 2015-07-08 07:44 (UTC+0100):
Quoth midi-pascal.....
Mine has been up for 285 days now... because I suffered a power failure last year.
Get a UPS :-)
# uptime 07:44:49 up 802 days, 12:27, 11 users, load average: 2.32, 2.44, 1.91
Nice theory. Power outages longer than momentary here average about 4X-5X as long as UPS battery charge. It's been years since I enjoyed as much as 200 days uptime. UPS batteries here average little more than 802 days between need to replace them. 3 times in the past 36 months I've had them expire *during* their warranty periods. I spend more on UPS batteries and UPSes than on PCs, but in part that's because they protect the power supplies and motherboards from derelict power company service.
Just one of the reasons there is a 20 kw nat gas burning standby in the back yard. Its running and I haven't seen the blink long before the ups batteries are used up. However, for other reasons, uptime is about 2 weeks right now.
Cheers, Gene Heskett