How far can your computer run?

[Jayce]

Taking this from the UbuntuForums. I thought it was kind of interesting. By issuing this command:

echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '(1k|1024)-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1 miles/'

It will tell you how long your computer can run (if it had legs, of course) before it would die.

My result - 387.0 miles.

Some guys on the other forums ran this test on Ubuntu servers as well. The numbers were pretty darn high on those beasts.

 

[kmote]

folding machine 2 - 91.7 miles
folding machine 1 - 93.7 miles
Big server - 319.1 miles

 

[yzmxer608]

What does it do to tell you how far it can run?

 

[kmote]

Nothing, just a bit of fun.

 

[Jayce]

What does it do to tell you how far it can run?

Yeah - it's nothing that's worth bragging to your friends I guess. I assume it just analyzes your available processor load, memory, hardware, etc and sees what it would take to fully bench it before a system failure, and somehow ends up barfing out a number readable in miles. I base this assumption on the fact I ran that command twice, and the 2nd time it dropped by almost 85 miles because I had more applications open at the time.

 

[SirCyber]

does that command work in windows, anyone?

 

[kmote]

No, it won't.

 

[SirCyber]

lol guess I'll have to try that in ubuntu sometime... be interesting to try that in the rig I'm building, not so much the lappy I'm on right now

 

[Jayce]

does that command work in windows, anyone?

No, it won't work on Windows. My buddy tried it on his Mac (which would by nature have a higher chance to run a Linux command than Windows would) but it errored out. However, the funny thing is despite it erroring out, it still gave him an answer. His answer was 7 miles.

Despite the error, I'm sure the answer was relatively accurate.

 

[kmote]

Moved my small server from centOS to openSUSE today. Ran the test: less than 38.2 miles. Ouch.
2500.228/30 + 2500.228/30 + 89568/1024/3+ 1767.55/15+70
but I think I found a "bug"
EDIT:

echo `uptime|grep days|sed 's/.*up \([0-9]*\) day.*/\1\/10+/'; cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep '^cpu MHz'|awk '{print $4"/30 +";}';free|grep '^Mem'|awk '{print $3"/1024/3+"}'; df -P -k -x nfs -x smbfs | grep -v '(1k|1024)-blocks' | awk '{if ($1 ~ "/dev/(scsi|sd|md)"){ s+= $2} s+= $2;} END {print s/1024/50"/15+70";}'`|bc|sed 's/\(.$\)/.\1 miles/'

You'll need that "md" in there if you use software RAID, brought my score up to 45 miles.