Author Topic: What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on? (Read 566 times)

giZmo350 · « **on:** January 24, 2015, 08:37:16 PM »

What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on? Only soft resets count. How many days, weeks, months, YEARS? By model number....
I've had my A500 on for about 3 weeks now with no reset with just a floppy game of PGA Tour Golf. :laugh1:

slaapliedje · « **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2015, 08:40:25 PM »

I think I left mine (A4000D) on for 3 days at some point, trying to make sure it doesn't over heat. Now that it's very quiet, I'll be able to leave it on for longer

Currently looking into setting up a compiler and am going to attempt to compile some software that looks to be a bit out of date on the Amiga platform (namely perl, I'm going to be learning it soon, figured it'd be fun to do some of it on the Amiga!).

So at that point, I'm sure it'll be left on for longer periods of time

slaapliedje

Ryu · « **Reply #2 on:** January 24, 2015, 08:56:59 PM »

I used to have an A1200 on as a web server that did not need soft rebooting, and was left powered on for well over a year....

It then crashed (ran out of memory) so needed a soft reboot.....

The machine was eventually switched off after being on for over 3 years as I needed to move house... Have yet to set it up at the new place.

Valiant · « **Reply #3 on:** January 24, 2015, 09:06:41 PM »

Quote from: gizmo350;782278

What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on? Only soft resets count. How many days, weeks, months, YEARS? By model number....
I've had my A500 on for about 3 weeks now with no reset with just a floppy game of PGA Tour Golf. :laugh1:

My AmigaOne XE has been powered on since the time I first got it, except for a small period of time when I had to replace the PSU, and it's one of the Early Bird ones...

B-)

itix · « **Reply #4 on:** January 24, 2015, 09:20:55 PM »

Quote from: gizmo350;782278

What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on? Only soft resets count. How many days, weeks, months, YEARS? By model number....
I've had my A500 on for about 3 weeks now with no reset with just a floppy game of PGA Tour Golf. :laugh1:

My Amiga 500 was powered on maybe only just one day or two. Some games crashed if left running for hours.

But my Amiga 1200 was always on since 1999 until it was sold around 2003-2004. It was calculating dnetc stuff and was working as FTP server and dynAMIte host. After getting rid of A1200 my Pegasos 1/2 were always on and since 2009, my trusted Mac Mini G4. They get switched off only when moving. But years if we dont count resets.

omnicron10 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 24, 2015, 10:05:49 PM »

In 1995 I use to leave my A3000T on 24/7 for years running my phone line centrex IVR with 4 GVP PhonePak cards and a EB920 ethernet card. I might have had to reboot it about one every 6 months. I had a weird problem that the audio would stutter if I did not have the spliner screen saver running. It had buster -11 and Z2 memory and A3640 rev 1.2. With Z2 memory it did not require spliner to run.

nOw2 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 24, 2015, 11:29:42 PM »

A1200 - 1994 to 2004, 2011-now.

The gap from 2004 to 2011 is when I ran my BBS from first an A4000 (2004-2009) then under UAE (2009-2011).

I would say the A1200 is the same machine, but I've upgraded so much on it that I lose track of what is original.

I guess you mean continuously powered, so perhaps I've hit a year with just reboots. The machine has had many breaks for power cuts, fiddling with the hardware, etc.

kolla · « **Reply #7 on:** January 24, 2015, 11:32:35 PM »

My old A1200 had a record update of 700+ days, but it was running Linux and not AmigaOS :p It functioned as web server, fileserver for my other Amiga computers, and various other little tasks.

Duce · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2015, 01:37:23 AM »

Back in the day I had various A3000's, an A4000, and eventually an '030 A2000 that likely ran well over a year uptime on each without a hard reset running the various BBS's that I ran.

My SAM tends to get left on a lot too, mainly because even if I'm not running my BBS on it, the thing is dead silent and I forget to turn it off, lol. No CPU or case fans in it at all, silent PSU, and all SSD's. I'd say it's been on for a good 8-10 months at a stretch over the past 6 years with very little downtime.

Oldsmobile_Mike · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2015, 06:26:22 AM »

Back in the day when I used to play around with 3D modeling software (mid-'90s), I'd leave my A500 on for days at a time. At 7.14MHz it would take about 21 hours to render a single frame! :lol:

dovegrace · « **Reply #10 on:** January 25, 2015, 03:57:34 PM »

24 hours was the longest my A4000 was on: was running Disksalv on a badly damaged hard drive.

tonyvdb · « **Reply #11 on:** January 25, 2015, 07:23:07 PM »

Had my A4000 with a video toaster flyer system on for 2 and a half weeks once doing a render of an animation in Lightwave. Worked out great, was only 25 seconds long once finished LOL

omgas · « **Reply #12 on:** January 27, 2015, 12:25:21 AM »

> What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on? Only soft resets count. I'd really prefer real uptime as a guide, but with 7 fans, some always fail over time, the yearly dust-out and the odd power outage, it seems difficult to pass a 1 year uptime period. Box has basically been on 24/7/365 since I bought it. Eagle shut down their amiga sales shortly after. The original psu failing was responsible for the longest downtime, I believe. I recall the MiamiDX gui byte counter always showing ***, because it overruns somewhere past 127GB. Current harddrive has been spinning about 11+ years total, downtime subtracted, and at 10.000rpm that calculates to an astromical amount of revolutions. Current uptime, a bit short due to getting a larger ups, is since 31-Okt-2014 Roadshow stats: Number of bytes received = 88697836783 Number of bytes sent = 2072178455 Eagle 4000TE/ppc/piv/deneb/256MB+/etc/etc -omgas

paul1981 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 27, 2015, 01:53:52 AM »

Quote from: omgas;782396

> What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on? Only soft resets count. I'd really prefer real uptime as a guide, but with 7 fans, some always fail over time, the yearly dust-out and the odd power outage, it seems difficult to pass a 1 year uptime period. Box has basically been on 24/7/365 since I bought it. Eagle shut down their amiga sales shortly after. The original psu failing was responsible for the longest downtime, I believe. I recall the MiamiDX gui byte counter always showing ***, because it overruns somewhere past 127GB. Current harddrive has been spinning about 11+ years total, downtime subtracted, and at 10.000rpm that calculates to an astromical amount of revolutions. Current uptime, a bit short due to getting a larger ups, is since 31-Okt-2014 Roadshow stats: Number of bytes received = 88697836783 Number of bytes sent = 2072178455 Eagle 4000TE/ppc/piv/deneb/256MB+/etc/etc -omgas

I'm asking this out of curiosity really, but how often did it crash / require soft resets?

I wonder if TLSF mem or PoolMem can greatly increase the amount of uptime here? I've always used PoolMem and continue to do so, despite even Thomas Richter himself saying that we should all use TLSF mem (apologies if you never said any such thing Thomas).

About three years ago I did forget to turn off my A1200 (heavily expanded) and I had left a box or something on top of the brick power supply, totally blocking the vents. Well I was annoyed with myself anyway for leaving my 060 Amiga on going unused (around 4 or 5 hours IIRC). But, the standard brick supply got a tad warm to say the least. It survived though, and I still use it for some reason...:laughing:

Drummerboy · « **Reply #14 on:** January 27, 2015, 03:46:23 AM »

Back in the time, I had many of my Amigas too many time working.
Now enjoying of vacations, and sometimes just for remind old times.

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