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Offline Drummerboy

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Re: What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on?
« Reply #14 from previous page: January 27, 2015, 03:46:23 AM »
Back in the time, I had many of my Amigas too many time working.  
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Re: What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on?
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2015, 03:53:17 AM »
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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).

Another firm believer in TLSFmem (the latest version 1.9), here.  It greatly helps reduce memory fragmentation when opening & closing lots of programs over long periods of time.  Frankly I don't know why every Amiga user doesn't run it, but eh, to each their own.  ;)
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Re: What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on?
« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2015, 06:06:37 AM »
I have an Amiga 1200 which I bought in 1995 which became a full-time server sometime around 1997 or 1998. The pictures were taken before digital cameras became popular, so they were scanned from real prints.

http://www.ziaspace.com/~john/lilith/

The machine is in use right now, too, testing NetBSD 7 with gcc 4.8.4.

It was up without reboot for well over two years when I first moved out west and it was still colocated in Manhattan. It was an excellent investment :)
 

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Re: What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on?
« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2015, 07:34:50 AM »
I also ran a BBS in the early 90s fort a year or so on an A4k. However, that was not my uptime singe I plugged in a Multiface Card, CDROM, switched to a Tower etc. So I had to turn it off quiet often. Btw. I still have this Amiga ans its still Wirkung.
 

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Re: What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on?
« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2015, 08:20:57 AM »
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Re: What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on?
« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2015, 11:55:33 AM »
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I find Amiga's fascinating. Always something to do/create/tweak etc.
 

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Re: What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on?
« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2015, 03:27:41 PM »
My A1200T PPC/medi etc etc over 10 days without reboot.
I remember a small exe that we used back then on the Greek irc to post our time without reboot :-)
A friend left his A1200 with an Apollo 040 about 30 days in summer rendering babylon scenes... the amiga was open inside out with a big fan a meter away blowing.
Another guy back then told me on irc that his A500 was 7 years on with scala and dpaint on his topic tv channel.
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Re: What's the longest period your Amiga has been powered on?
« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2015, 04:44:05 PM »
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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:
 By my definition of uptime, the answer is none, no crashes that requires to reboot the system. It is a well proven older os3.9 installation.  I cannot comment on your mentioned memory patches, and apart from mcp, I dont recall other 'dirty' patches installed.   -omgas