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You haven’t properly kept a machine alive until the clock rolls over. I logged into a firewalled Windows VM on EC2 that’s been running an internal micro servic
by ComputerGuru 3y ago
You haven’t properly kept a machine alive until the clock rolls over.
I logged into a firewalled Windows VM on EC2 that’s been running an internal micro service that was acting up and it caught my eye that task manager showed an uptime of 6 days making my mind immediately think it might be a bug caused by the recent reboot or perhaps the update that triggered it.
It turns out no reboot had taken place and in fact, the uptime counter had merely rolled over - and not for the first time! Bug was unrelated to the machine and it’s still (afaik) ticking merrily away.
(Our `uptime` tool for Windows [0] reported the actual time the machine was up correctly.)
[0]: https://neosmart.net/uptime/ https://neosmart.net/uptime/
- sgerenser 3y agoMicrosoft probably never anticipated needing more than a month or two of uptime, since they roll out restart-required updates more frequently than that.
- exikyut 3y agoOkay, what was the actual uptime? :) (:E)
- ComputerGuru 3y agohttps://i.imgur.com/B0Y8h71.png https://i.imgur.com/B0Y8h71.png