stability ... boring old and simple stability

[xxx@yyy~]$ uptime
 15:07:51 up 505 days, 47 min, 14 users,  load average: 0.39, 0.35, 0.19
[xxx@yyy~]$ uname -s
Linux

43.6 mega-seconds. For the pair of 1.6 GHz CPUs that are in here, this is a combined 1.4 x 10^17 clock cycles. Or for the chemists among us … this is 0.23 micro-mole of clock cycles. You would need 4.3 million of these machines to provide one mole (6.022 x 10^23) cycles per year.