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[65.0.115.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q128sm10336631ywf.27.2015.08.29.21.22.53 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 29 Aug 2015 21:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55E2851B.20301@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 23:22:51 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime References: <20150830040443.GA1081@ca.inter.net> In-Reply-To: <20150830040443.GA1081@ca.inter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: bf828531-32e6-4e0c-8dd2-5dce21d7f016 X-Archives-Hash: b6e85a7d66178464ec2188592bb3b2fe Philip Webb wrote: > How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots= ? > How long between power off/on's ? > > I've long been in the habit of switching everything off while I sleep, > then restarting after I've woken & got going again myself. > However recently, I've run into delays getting my router > (only 1 device attached) to shake hands successfully with my ISP's se= rver, > which have been requiring several power off/on's before it works. > As a result, I've started rebooting only after my weekly system update > -- it means I get to use the new versions of everything -- > & not powering off at all ; the monitor + Xscreensaver are off > whenever I'm away from the machine for >=3D 1 hr (approx). > > Are there any pro's/con's I sb aware of ? > root@fireball / # uprecords # Uptime | System =20 Boot up ----------------------------+--------------------------------------------= ------- 1 193 days, 09:28:37 | Linux 3.5.3-gentoo Sat Sep 22 07:50:38 2012 2 116 days, 16:24:24 | Linux 3.16.3-gentoo Mon Oct 13 20:27:52 2014 3 111 days, 00:34:49 | Linux 3.18.7-gentoo Tue Mar 31 18:57:19 2015 4 101 days, 18:34:17 | Linux 3.5.3-gentoo Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969 5 72 days, 12:03:16 | Linux 3.9.5-gentoo Sat Jul 13 19:11:24 2013 6 69 days, 00:44:23 | Linux 3.11.6-gentoo Mon Jan 6 03:33:34 2014 7 66 days, 11:00:52 | Linux 3.9.5-gentoo Thu Oct 31 15:54:27 2013 8 51 days, 23:49:06 | Linux 3.13.6-gentoo Sun Mar 23 15:53:30 2014 9 46 days, 01:07:54 | Linux 3.16.0-gentoo Thu Aug 28 15:48:57 2014 10 36 days, 11:40:14 | Linux 3.14.0-gentoo Mon May 19 16:05:48 2014 ----------------------------+--------------------------------------------= ------- -> 28 6 days, 20:58:28 | Linux 3.18.7-gentoo Sun Aug 23 02:14:26 2015 ----------------------------+--------------------------------------------= ------- 1up in 1 day , 01:40:30 | at Mon Aug 31 00:53:23 2015 t10 in 29 days, 14:41:47 | at Mon Sep 28 13:54:40 2015 no1 in 186 days, 12:30:10 | at Thu Mar 3 10:43:03 2016 up 1179 days, 07:42:13 | since Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969 down 15497 days, 20:30:4 | since Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969 %up 7.071 | since Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969 root@fireball / # The biggest reason I shutdown, power failure. I use checkrestart to see if/when I need to restart something after doing updates. If for example I update something in the @system area, then I just logout of the GUI, go to boot runlevel, run checkrestart again to see if that did it and then go back to default runlevel. Sometimes, I have to restart something by hand instead of rebooting but not to often. Generally just going to boot runlevel gets the job done. One thing about not rebooting a lot, you use cache a lot which can speed some things up a bit. I have 16GBs here and most of the time, it is almost all used. How much that helps, I dunno but if it didn't help, they wouldn't have it doing it. Another good side, run updates while you sleep.=20 The only bad side, more wear on things like fans and some extra dust. I try to clean my rig at least twice a year or whenever I notice the temps a little higher than they should be. Oh, pulls power all the time which may not matter much depending on your electricity rates.=20 Of course, fixing that connection issue may be a good idea too. ;-) Dale :-) :-)=20