From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E1D1384C0 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72046E08DF; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f182.google.com (mail-ig0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50D0DE08D1 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 11:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igui7 with SMTP id i7so40803607igu.1 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:08:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=thr7y2P35ylJ3b/zIGa76eQiwH6BpA+nGthST92HDvU=; b=vRYFCIeL6QT3QqyKNjG9lLn1uVjlL8Um9RJDHXfDDjUsN6ikHBLz+TeOZE3Aw06hKX mzE0aXOT9SaEVIIkz9o3bjhfNaMODA4lO3tB/ySKhtQoGjOHq5+AcMVeU1a37k0SDe8Q 2SXc9oz/1qIcunrTgi8V0dnkOKYn/0heycGufzEVJOvHjnvMSpBLeEKc9+sA9c1jIo2/ smzmkV+YTvbQ36sJhsco/eY32YYIQBG0zTsYEdz0TlOJNHNuEg/6qxdTTSC8dnK2hhCJ wQQU8cpplk4G7XoIQZer6gJ8a8tP53Qg6dkO96IE0lM+1W4kmM/GmtKwf+kti7b68GNs k6pA== 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 X-Received: by 10.50.67.3 with SMTP id j3mr7215170igt.70.1440932887670; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.79.103.70 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:08:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55E2CFE6.7050303@gmail.com> References: <20150830040443.GA1081@ca.inter.net> <55E2CFE6.7050303@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 07:08:07 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mbvonMlaH-DIrDL894dePaEEsms Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 11d43d6b-1bbd-4f3d-87eb-3f5af5535c32 X-Archives-Hash: 0e7c9a89aa411fd8f453ca3b1741b787 On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/08/2015 06:04, Philip Webb wrote: >> How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots ? >> How long between power off/on's ? >> > > Mine depends. I typically do a deliberate reboot only when wanting a new > kernel running. Sometimes it's a few days, often up to a month or more. > ++ Typically I reboot every week or two. I try to keep up with stable kernel releases on the latest longterm branch (currently 3.18.20). I'm currently at 19 days, which is a bit on the high side for me, but it seems like 3.18 hasn't had as many updates as some of the other stable series. If you keep a closer eye on security issues and care to track which kernel fixes you do or don't accept, or want to mess with kernel live patching, then you could go longer. I also like to reboot at some frequency just so that if for whatever reason it doesn't reboot I only have a few week's worth of system updates to look at to figure out what changed. I have Gentoo hosts that I don't stay on top of as often and when 5 things break at once I'm playing guessing games (those hosts are all easy to snapshot). -- Rich