Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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. 
>
> 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. 
>
> Of course, fixing that connection issue may be a good idea too.  ;-)

> hmmm, if you go to boot run level what is the difference between that
> and rebooting?  After a major update there are so many things to restart
> that I usually give up and reboot the system, is actually quicker.
>
>

Hmmmm, this quoting thing didn't work right again. 

For me, it is faster.  Also, rebooting can uncover a problem that I
might not know about.  I've had a few times where I couldn't reboot for
some unknown reason.  Plus, all the common stuff remains in cache.  Most
of the time tho, just logging out of a GUI, KDE for me, is enough. 
Using checkrestart should tell me exactly what needs to be restarted and
most of the time how.  About the only thing I have to restart manually,
udev.  It's one thing that has a regular update that doesn't restart
since it is already started before getting to the boot runlevel. 

To each his own tho.  All of us has our own way of doing things of this
nature and for varying reasons.  Some shutdown because electricity is
expensive.  For some, that doesn't matter.  Some do it to just reduce
noise from the fans etc.  One reason I leave mine on all the time is
that I almost always have mine doing something.  I have tons of TV shows
and such on here.  If I'm not doing something myself, I have it doing
something. 

Dale

:-)  :-)