Longest Amiga session

[Lemonty]

We all know the Amiga can be prone to crashes due to badly written programs, hacks, patches modified startup-sequences and the lot.
My sessions tend to be quite short (< 2hours) before crashing. Usually when surfing the web.

What's your record?

[Ilwrath]

Back in the days when it was my primary workstation, my 4000 with CSMK2 060 went a couple days without reboot on multiple occasions.  

Back when my friend and I ran a BBS, we had an A500 with a HD and some FastRAM, and it would go for weeks before memory fragmentation (or a faulty administrator [me, usually]) would finally guru it.  :lol:

[pierre]

web surfing with the amiga =  pain

I get some pretty good runs (when just rendering) I was rendering to 2 days recently.  I think I have left the things on for week at a time.

On average 2 hours should right, when fiddeling with apps and settings....

On a slightly off topic note...I just realized I had my octane2 logged in for about 2 months solid now!  (browsing the web, running maya and studio!) no issues.

[god64]

let me guess, your running ibrowse as webbrowser? for me, if ibrowse is running, expect a crash every 30 minutes, although i noticed, if images are disabled it stays up somewhot longer, maybe something around 2-3 hours. as soon as i run a freshly boot up amiga without ibrowse (or aweb, which is only slightly more stable than ibrowse) i usually switch my computer off (yeah, you have heared right ;-) ), no crashes at all. record there should be last xzentrix (maybe topped by next xzentrix in a few weeks http://www.xzentrix.de ) where it was running about 20 hours or so playing games with whdload. no reboots, just normal exit via whdload hotkey.

[Noster]

Hi,

my private mainsystem is still my A3000T and it usually runs a couple of hours before I turn it off or need to reboot.
Web-browsing forces me from time to time to reboot the machine but with other software I have no problems. My main problem for reboots and crashes has been defective hardware (CPU-socket of the CSPPC :-().

Back in the days of my A1000 I left the system on for weeks playing Elite. I saved the games to the ram-disk and just turned on the monitor to continue playing. The A1000 case-fan is so silent the A1000 could run in my bedroom day and night and hasn't disturbed -- in fact the fan can't be heard under normal conditions.

Noster

[Matt_H]

I used to keep my 1200 up for days on end doing all my usual activities: WHDLoad games, web, YAM, and MP3 playback (though it would crash occasionally). Now I usually shut down overnight in the interests of extending the lifespan of my hardware.

[pierre]

yeah, I shutdown much more now also. tho I think is mainly to save the power suppy as I think it's actualy better for the hardware to stay on (if your gonna use it on and off).. is this true?

[maffoo]

@pierre:

I don't know if keeping a system running rather than switching it on and off regularly makes a difference, but I would have thought that powering up a computer regularly would cause it more mechanical stress (eg. having to spin up hard disks and fans.)

I tend to put my Mac to sleep if I'm going to be away for less than half an hour, any more than that and I switch it off to save electricity.

[pierre]

it was someting about the current spiking whenyou turn it on puting stress on the chips and such.. don;t know if this bogus.. I do know that sometime i turn an old system off and then it never turns back on.... very sad...

[maffoo]

I did think of that (a bit like how lightbulbs are more likely to pop when you switch them on), but I would have thought there would be some sort of protection circuitry?

[Lemonty]

@god64

Yes I'm running Ibrowse. It seems to me the most complete browser available currently. I guess the sheer volume of data flying around makes Amiga housekeeping (ie not crashing) a tall order. This is an observation from someone who knows totally nothing of the technical side of it mind you.
Anyway, I use so many pathes on my system (Afa OS being one) that it is difficult to isolate the baddie patches most of the time. I find a bare 3.9.2 system to be the most stable.

[AmigaMance]

 Since you say that the crashes occur while browsing, perhaps the problem comes from the tcp/ip stack or the network driver and not necessarily from the browser. Try Aweb and see what will happen.
 Anyway, if your record is 2 hours there is something seriously wrong with your system that you must isolate. I can operate my Amiga for 8 hours or so without a single crash.

[tldaley]

My old A1200T used to run for months before I would reset it and that was 24/7.

My A1 with OS4 update 4 runs about 10 hours a day being used constantly, including using IBrowse. I now turn it off at the end of the day, only due to the very high cost of electricity here now. It did run 24/7 for the first couple of weeks when I first got it.

Ciao,
Trev Daley.

[tonyvdb]

I have left my Amiga 4000 on for several days letting it render some annimations using lightwave and it has never crashed. It will crash more often if I play games or run other programs but the Toaster/Flyer runs solid even when using it for live switching that I have done.

[Cass]

Depends on the ammount/size of memory you have installed, and the kind of applications you're running.
An unexpanded 16MB Fast A4000, won't last long surfing the internet and doing other stuff simultaneously.
With 152 MB, I go till some proggie halts the system (won't go out of memory with the usual apps running -expect large files/compression/compiling etc.-).
OS4 will resolve these problems, hopefully.