arrgh i hate folding at home, i can never get it to work.

anyway my uptime is only 1day 7hrs because i always reboot to windows, if you didnt include that, its been on for a good week and a half

I'm on my Windoze machine since the G4 breathed it's last.

As you can imagine, this thing goes down a lot.

This thread made me think about the Show off screensaver I used to impress windows users.

up 28 days, 17:17

22:31 up 18 days, 19 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.36 0.90 1.07

up 30 days, 12:02

I appear to be the uptime champion here so far:

[quicksilver:~] macnut% uptime
14:01 up 36 days, 17:55

If I'm not using the Mac, my wife or stepkids are. When it's not being used at all, it runs SETI@home. I set the screen to go off at 20 minutes of inactivity. I only restart for a software update that requires it.

loserv:/ admin$ uptime
17:46 up 59 days, 3:24, 1 user, load averages: 1.35 1.46 1.37

It would be up for even longer if I hadn't of ran that stupid 10.4.10 update. Oh well.

TheG5:~ john$ uptime
0:00 up 62 days, 1:07, 2 users, load averages: 1.54 1.02 0.76

Only one problem... syslogd starts failing :p

Yeah, about a week or so after I posted those uptime stats, I ended up having to reboot my machine due to a number of annoying problems: the machine slowed to a crawl, various apps stopped launching or took much longer than usual to launch, some of my peripherals stopped responding.

I tried to log out all accounts then log back in, but it only cleared up some of those issues-I found myself forced to reboot to fix them all. This is a common problem with all the Macs and OSes I've owned. I wonder how the people running their machines for hundreds of days straight manage to keep them usable?

we might have a friendly little competition going between us. my server is currently at 81 days, 5 hours, and 27 minutes. The only reason it is this low is that i went through and did some updates and had to restart it. And it is on a small battery backup so a short power outage should not affect it.

EDIT: Doh! I just noticed your post was from 2 months ago!

Our server was up for over 100 days, but then nfs stopped working. After talking to applecare, we decided to reboot it. That fixed the issue, but whne I told the tech that the server had been up for only 100 days, he said, "That's pretty good."

I thought 100 days was a liitle lame, I was expecting 300+ days.

Brett

I thought I'd restarted recently, but apparently that was over three weeks ago!
uptime:
20:51 up 22 days, 5:18, 2 users, load averages: 0.79 0.85 0.92

If you're still going, you win. At around 115 days (again) I went for a whole pile of deferred "restart required" system and QuickTime updates and that Mac's uptime is just 12 days right now. I took the opportunity to run all the maintenance on it so we'll see how far it gets this time.

up 1 day, 14:35, 2 users, load averages: 0.13 0.12 0.09

I have a number of computers that have been up for at least 133 days with a load of 2 (for the dual machines) or 4 (for the dual/dual machines).

I'm very pleased with that. The file didn't really survive my transfer, but take a look.

Brett

Before I realized what an incredible waste of electricity it was I used to let my previous machine (PB G4) run all the time. My record with that computer was 63 days. Unless I'm processing a video or downloading a large file I now responsibly shut my machine down every night. I am also much more aware of the value in running Onyx (or similar) when necessary.

As of this posting, the record at http://www.hitup.org/ is 1669 days, 18 mins

If you frequently power up your computer, it can use as much power as if you leave it on. Since I'm just as likely to use mine at any time of the day or night, barring the hours from 3:00 am until 6:00 when I'm most likely to be sleeping, I probably save some power by just leaving it on. It is wasteful to leave it on doing nothing though, so I keep my machine running folding@home both as a console and a screen saver. At least that way the energy I'm using will benefit everyone. ;)

My high uptimes with my PowerBook do not raise my electricity bills. It sleeps all night on battery, and in the morning not a lot of battery power has been used. As long as the battery gets topped off, it could continue doing this indefinitely.