A few days ago I shut down two servers that had been running non-stop for a while.
One of them had just passed 2,000 days, which is a little over five and a half years:
11:09:22 up 2009 days, 19:54, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root ttyp0 11:09 0.00s 0.00s 0.00s w
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root ttyp0 11:09 0.00s 0.00s 0.00s w
And the other set a new record for me at 7 years and 3 months:
11:08:29 up 2646 days, 17:00, 1 user, load average: 0.28, 0.09, 0.02
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root ttyp1 11:08 0.00s 0.02s 0.00s w
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root ttyp1 11:08 0.00s 0.02s 0.00s w
I felt kind of sad turning them off; it’s like saying goodbye to an old friend.