At Edoceo we’ve been operating servers and internet systems since at least 1997. Many of us have experience dating even further. This month (Jan 2011) we’ll be moving systems around and one of our longest running systems will have to be taken off-line forever – the hardware is simply too old now.
Just sharing a bit of our history on this box and a little bragging too.
This system has been running since Wed Feb 1 02:25:22 2006!!
The system itself is an old P3/850 that we purchased at a dot-com liquidation auction run by James G Murphy auction house – we attended at least a dozen of their auctions – they run good operation. It was installed with our favourite distro: Gentoo and housed at SiteSpecific in Seattle.
We’ve just finished migrating all services off and are about to issue the final `poweroff` command once this is posted.
The Hardware
It’s a P3/850 with 512MiB of RAM and a small, 15GiB IDE disk.
lithium ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 847.583 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1697.27
lithium ~ # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 515424 kB MemFree: 283108 kB Buffers: 156472 kB Cached: 36652 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 179176 kB Inactive: 18396 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 515424 kB LowFree: 283108 kB SwapTotal: 498004 kB SwapFree: 497948 kB Dirty: 0 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 9488 kB Slab: 33132 kB CommitLimit: 755716 kB Committed_AS: 11856 kB PageTables: 224 kB VmallocTotal: 515816 kB VmallocUsed: 952 kB VmallocChunk: 514788 kB
lithium ~ # sfdisk -uM -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 32760 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 32760/16/63). For this listing I'll assume that geometry. Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End MiB #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 62- 63- 64228+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 62+ 549- 487- 498015 83 Linux /dev/hda3 549+ 16119- 15571- 15944512+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Software
Very old 2.6.x kernel, reasonably new OpenSSH, Lighttpd and Postfix
lithium ~ # uname -a Linux lithium 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 #1 Tue Nov 1 14:42:07 PST 2005 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
lithium ~ # ssh -V OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
lithium ~ # lighttpd -V lighttpd-1.4.20 (ssl) - a light and fast webserver Build-Date: Jun 23 2009 07:51:59
lithium ~ # postconf mail_version mail_version = 2.5.5
The Uptime Proof
Here shows our uptime command, process table, tune2fs information.
Notice the kernel started in 2006!
lithium ~ # uptime 11:38:42 up 1804 days, 16:42, 2 users, load average: 1.05, 0.73, 0.45
lithium ~ # ps -eF UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 419 500 0 2006 ? 00:42:40 init [3] root 2 1 0 0 0 0 2006 ? 00:04:35 [ksoftirqd/0] root 3 1 0 0 0 0 2006 ? 00:44:50 [events/0] root 4 1 0 0 0 0 2006 ? 00:10:19 [khelper] root 5 1 0 0 0 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 [kthread] root 7 5 0 0 0 0 2006 ? 00:03:35 [kblockd/0] root 54 5 0 0 0 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 [aio/0] root 53 1 0 0 0 0 2006 ? 00:12:53 [kswapd0] root 638 5 0 0 0 0 2006 ? 00:00:00 [kseriod] root 669 1 0 0 0 0 2006 ? 00:49:43 [kjournald] root 7228 1 0 404 684 0 2006 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux root 7231 1 0 404 684 0 2006 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux root 4020 1 0 820 2272 0 2008 ? 03:14:55 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng root 1599 1 0 945 1020 0 2008 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -n 3 root 1600 1599 0 945 1020 0 2008 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -n 3 root 1601 1599 0 945 1020 0 2008 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -n 3 root 32007 5 0 0 0 0 2009 ? 00:00:18 [pdflush] root 19284 1 0 437 624 0 2009 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon root 6711 5 0 0 0 0 2009 ? 00:00:00 [kauditd] root 18726 1 0 550 844 0 2009 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/fcron -c /etc/fcron/fcron.conf root 7784 5 0 0 0 0 2010 ? 00:00:07 [pdflush] root 11131 1 0 1155 1848 0 2010 ? 00:00:22 /usr/sbin/sshd root 11277 1 0 1373 1584 0 2010 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib/postfix/master postfix 11282 11277 0 1394 1668 0 2010 ? 00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u root 6338 11131 0 1795 2200 0 Jan07 ? 00:00:05 sshd: root@pts/0 root 6343 6338 0 762 1684 0 Jan07 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash postfix 21039 11277 0 1380 1528 0 10:11 ? 00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u lighttpd 21132 1 0 1010 1380 0 11:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd /lighttpd.conf root 21165 6343 0 582 920 0 11:15 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -eF
lithium ~ # tune2fs -l /dev/hda3 tune2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 5384337f-6d08-4938-bc70-049a10dc3bee Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 1994944 Block count: 3986128 Reserved block count: 199306 Free blocks: 2985298 Free inodes: 1708965 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16352 Inode blocks per group: 511 Filesystem created: Sat Oct 23 11:45:48 2004 Last mount time: Wed Feb 1 02:25:22 2006 Last write time: Wed Feb 1 02:25:22 2006 Mount count: 31 Maximum mount count: 30 Last checked: Sat Oct 23 11:45:48 2004 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Thu Apr 21 11:45:48 2005 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 First orphan inode: 164326 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: e397094b-92b8-4e0d-a0d5-9b9397d7bca6 Journal backup: inode blocks
Work Load
Mail messages processed in 2010
lithium 2010 # for d in /var/log/2010/*; do echo -n "2010.$d = "; grep 'status=sent' $d/*/mail.log|wc -l; done 2010.01 = 53326 2010.02 = 48392 2010.03 = 65538 2010.04 = 77076 2010.05 = 34868 2010.06 = 214204 2010.07 = 247701 2010.08 = 377079 2010.09 = 407144 2010.10 = 212466 2010.11 = 1246 2010.12 = 727
Pages Served
Only the last few months were available in the logs, notice logs are not rotated :(
lithium ~ # grep 'Sep/2010' /var/log/lighttpd/access.log |wc -l 287049 lithium ~ # grep 'Oct/2010' /var/log/lighttpd/access.log |wc -l 294449 lithium ~ # grep 'Nov/2010' /var/log/lighttpd/access.log |wc -l 256327 lithium ~ # grep 'Dec/2010' /var/log/lighttpd/access.log |wc -l 260599
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