My Arch system stays on until a firmware package needs an update. Then i cry and scream bc it's only been a month since the last one. Also I just updated a bunch of those, so my system has not been on long.
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I'm surprised how many people turn their computers off. My desktop uptime is 4 day, but, I do put it to sleep at night (which I think counts towards its uptime).
I will look into hibernating. The reason I don't shut down is because I usually end up with carefully placed windows and lots of ongoing projects all over. Restarting would mean I'd have to start all that up again - assuming I remember what I was doing.
It's off at the moment. I turn it off whenever I'm not using it for security reasons, and also just noise reasons so the fan doesn't bother me. It boots relatively quickly so I'm unbothered.
I have a well-fenced server that I inherited 20 years ago and, but for power outages, has been in operation throughout. It survived a p2v but will not survive the coming v2v. #rhel4 #vmscare
I turn mine off to save power when I'm not actively using it. I have a small 65 watt server that stays on all the time. Currently it has been up for 3 months or so.
I reboot mine when I'm bored
mines off as we speak. I always turn it off at night.
Inxi? Mission center? What are those things?
Just run uptime like a normal person.
tbf, inxi is surprisingly powerful (dunno if that's the word... Insightful maybe?).
Mine is off at the moment.
i turn my pc off when im not using it to save power; i thought this was normal.
Most people use sleep or hibernate, still uses very little power (none in hibernate) but you don't have to open all your stuff every time.
Even with the power of ssds?
Hibernate is even better with a fast SSD.
SSDs make hibernate even more powerful
That's why things like suspend-then-hibernate are popular now
Yeah same here, my current uptime is 3.5 hours lol
Mine boots in 35s, according to systemd-analyze critical-chain with 4 of those seconds attributed to me typing in my password.
I'm astounded anyone would leave their machine on overnight.
(At the same time, I'm quite happy to leave my phone in light sleep mode overnight with airplane mode on, so I clearly have some double-standards here)
like 8 hours
I shut it down every day, start up times are fast enough that it doesn't bother me
I turn it off every night when I'm done. It boots quickly and I mostly just use it for the web browser and steam.
My work computer (Mac) I put to sleep because I don't always want to open all the terminals and IDE and such every time.
I know right I do the same but for my home pc it's easier to get into the groove when it's all in front of you in 3 seconds
up 1 day, 8 hours, 2 minutes
0 hours.
It is currently off because I don't leave it running overnight when I am not using it.
It's off right now.
Also, inxi? Better use uptime, that command is actually available on all systems and literally exists to check uptime.
uptime -p
for a human-readable format. Here's mine on my Hetzner VPS:
root@snapshot-199288474-ubuntu-16gb-hel1-1:~# uptime -p
up 8 weeks, 6 days, 8 minutes
Uptime: 9 days, 13 hours, 36 mins
I only restart for kernel updates. I put my PC to sleep when I'm not using it.
My graphic driver's get corrupted when my computer goes to sleep
This would be me, except the wife says it's "wasting energy." And rather than argue with her I've decided that in an effort for the dream of "happy wife, happy life" I'll just deal with sub 1min boot time
You might be able to turn off sleep indication (blinking power led) in bios btw:)
.......sunovabetch......I literally just facepalmed. Feel dumb for not having even considered looking into if I could do that. Well....guess papa has a weekend project....
Yeah but then you'd be lying to your wife in order to save 1 minute of boot time... Doesn't seem worth it.
.....damn you....this is also true.
I made Windows XP run for 40 days using a custom shell. Things got a bit weird, I ran defrag and memory optimization often.
It's like a daedra, it's been on, has always been on, and will be on forever
Kstuff but on the desktop. Am I right? Either that or SSI the desktop so I can shunt processes over for the patch run and not have to close sessions.
Server is rebooted, as needed, for updates. I think it just got a kernel update two weeks ago, so it probably only has ~14 days of uptime.
My desktop and laptop are shut down when not in use. Leaving them on when not in use is pointless.
Never understood obsessions with "uptime". If you have high numbers for uptime, you're a bad sysadmin/maintainer of your hardware unless the appliance is purpose-built to be always up and air gapped.
Exactly. I have services running with staggered automated updates/reboots to keep things stable. Since at least one of them is always available, it's like having no down-time but with actual stability and redundancy.
This is the way
That was my family's email server 5 months ago:
So roughly 2500 days today 🙂
security updates are for cowards, amirite? 😂
seriously though, Debian 7 stopped receiving security updates a couple of years prior to the last time you rebooted, and there have been a lot of exploitable vulnerabilities fixed between then and now. do your family a favor and replace that mailserver!
From the 2006 modification times, i wonder: did you actually start off with a 3.1 (sarge) install and upgrade it to 7 (wheezy) and then stopped upgrading at some point? if so, personally i would be tempted to try continuing to upgrade it all the way to bookworm, just to marvel at debian stable's stability.... but only after moving its services to a fresh system :)
security updates are for cowards, amirite? 😂
The server isn't exposed to the internet. It's a local IMAP server.
The server isn’t exposed to the internet. It’s a local IMAP server.
if it is processing emails that originate from the internet, it is exposed to the internet
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PC != server.
At the lower end, it's a pretty rocky line. It's easy to image a person who games during the day and torrents at night on the same machine. Or runs a plex server but only when they want to watch something while they sleep.
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I generally only reboot for stuff like kernel updates.
I've never had a Windows machine that can stay on longer than ~3 days before developing weird behaviour so it's off right now until I get home.
Usually only as long as I play games. After that, I shut it off. Why?
- I run Bazzite, which updates itself in the background, but needs a restart to complete
- It boots in seconds, because modern hard drives are crazy fast
- The standby-LED is annoying when I sleep
My laptop is usually on for a week, but I restart it from time to time, for the same reasons, and because devices need some sleep too! 😴
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