People leave their PC on constantly? I understand leaving servers running but i always turn my PC on in the morning, then off at night once im finished.
One or two of my computers have been on for about five years. The laptop I use mostly has been on for several months. But I'm a very teched-up person. I've got computers in various forms all over the place. Actually less nowadays compared to many years ago. I don't shut anything down because I've got various services in operation 24/7.
Today I learned the inxi command does so much more than I thought. I've only used it to check on my RAM once
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.
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.
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?).
mines off as we speak. I always turn it off at night.
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?
SSDs make hibernate even more powerful
That's why things like suspend-then-hibernate are popular now
Y'all it takes like 15 seconds to boot from an SSD why are you leaving your computers on?
because I can KVM from one computer to another in under 1 second and I dont feel like adding 14 to that. Plus Folding@Home.
With several comments now showing surprise about this, is sleep mode or hibernation not common knowledge?? Windows and every Linux distro I've tried has sleep mode enabled by default.
I wouldn't, and I don't think most people would, consider being in hibernation mode or sleep mode as "on". Sure, it will add to your uptime, but like its a demonstrably different power state.
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
like 8 hours
I shut it down every day, start up times are fast enough that it doesn't bother me
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
Mine is off at the moment.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
uptime
18:58 up 145 days, 4:57, 1 users, load averages: 6.19 4.70 5.30I reboot mine when I'm bored
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.
that's not a server machine
Well my "Server" just a repurposed desktop with a headless debian install.
now that's a server. mine is like that too. its not the hardware but the purpose that makes a machine a server
It's like a daedra, it's been on, has always been on, and will be on forever
I generally only reboot for stuff like kernel updates.
Usually only as long as I play games. After that, I shut it off. Why?
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! 😴
Uptime: 9 days, 13 hours, 36 mins
i've been shutting down linux desktops most every day lately, and turning them on only when i want to use one.
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