2222 days .. of FreeBSD 12 ... uptime

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net>
Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 18:00:08 UTC
XB!

It's been a while since I saw >2000 day uptimes posted here (August
2003?) .. and uptime.netcraft is long gone ...


I missed the 2222d 22:22:22 on this one between last night and now.

$ uptime
12:25AM  up 2222 days, 12:39, 1 user, load averages: 0.21, 0.17, 0.11
$ date; uptime
Sat May  4 17:14:45 UTC 2024
  5:14PM  up 2223 days,  5:28, 1 user, load averages: 0.09, 0.13, 0.15
$ uname -rvKm
12.0-amd64-base12-xmas FreeBSD 12.0-amd64-base12-xmas #0 r328394M: Thu Jan 25 21:02:28 UTC 2018
bz:/local/shared/freebsd/ports.svn/private/embedded/xmas/work/obj/local/shared/freebsd/ports.svn/private/embedded/xmas/work/base12-r328394/amd64.amd64/sys/XMAS  amd64 1200056
# shutdown -p now

The image it is^Wwas running was still built from SVN and was based on
FreeBSD 12-CURRENT for as much as I can see and survived the lifetime of
the branch.  It was all (built elsewhere, installed, ...) remotely at
some point from a different country after the predecessor had a power
supply failure.  I never saw the machine. Apparently (kenv said) it was
a FUJITSU.

FreeBSD is simply great, flexible, and it is amazing what you can do
even in odd circumstances with it and how stable it generally can be
even as CURRENT!

PS: maybe do update your kernel more often, if just for these security
fixes.  Not all bits can be fixed or shielded at run time... for world
jails really help a lot to be able to achieve this.

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7