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"""Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?""" Haha % uname -a Darwin Galactica.
by st3fan 18y ago
"""Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?"""
Haha
% uname -a
Darwin Galactica.local 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
% uptime
19:08 up 23 days, 6 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.87 1.02 1.07
- mhartl 18y agoI had the same thought when I read this. I used to turn off my computer every night, until I switched from Windows (98) to Linux. In grad school, my roommate and I had uptime contests with our Linux boxes, which he won with something like 6 months of uptime. The most common causes of lost uptime were electrical power outages and moving apartments. Now, like you, I mainly run OS X, but it's on a laptop, which wreaks havoc with my uptime. Ah, well. I guess you can't have it all.
- jauco 18y agoI'm always amazed by this. Why would you keep your computer running if you're not using it? just for comparing lengths?
- axod 18y agoIf you're running a server on it, or just want it ready to use whenever you need? There's always sleep/power saving modes anyway.
- pavelludiq 18y agoI generate a lot of torrent traffic on my machine. Im seeding something like 50-60 torrents.
- st3fan 18y agoI let my computers sleep. But that still counts as uptime ;)
- mrtron 18y agoLaptop: 10:56 up 83 days, 1:50, 7 users, load averages: 1.05 1.32 1.12 I don't reboot - but I do close the lid to let it sleep. My main reason for not rebooting is I generally have 100 things open at any time and that 'state' is important.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoAs memory and bulk storage become faster and faster and gain more and more capacity I think that the idea of losing application state just because your PC shut off will become a horror story to tell our children. Eventually it will become one large memory space backed by a variety of local and network stores.
- mhartl 18y agoI do the same thing, but even with sleep sometimes my machine gets hosed (the technical term) and requires a reboot. That never happened with my old Linux box.
- mhartl 18y agoI'd turn it around: Why would you turn your computer off if you don't have to? The power consumption is roughly $0/year, and by keeping it on you don't have to resurrect your editors, terminal windows, and browsers every morning.
- brk 18y ago-sh-3.00$ uptime 08:36:21 up 254 days, 10:28, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00