[ale] uptime, cool--New topic, keeping power on

[Stephen R. Blevins]

My experience of life has been that this is a religious issue.

My personal bent has been to bring my UNIX machines down to a complete 
halt and restart them
at least once a week. My theory is that this cleans up some tables and 
(maybe) reclaims
"leaked" memory. Your mileage may vary.

Mark Wright wrote:
> Pretty cool.
>
> I like to display uptime for my desktops occasionally.  My ti PB is  
> 59 days right now and nagging me to do a software update.   My Ubuntu  
> desktop is over 100 days.
>
> This brought to mind another thread idea.  I used to reboot the  
> windows machines I was forced to use at least once a day usually more  
> even if there was nothing wrong.  That plus a mixed feeling about the  
> old idea of power cycling equipment being bad has given me this  
> irrational desire to keep my personal machines up for as long as I can.
>
> What do ya'll (a little southern lingo there) think about keeping  
> equipment up versus powering it off after use.  I have heard and made  
> all the reliability issues and personally think that the electronics  
> runs just as long either way.  ( I do hardware maintenance so I have  
> seen it all)
>
> Since we Linux users don't have to clean up our OS's memory with  
> frequent reboots what is the case for keeping it up or powering it down?
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Aug 31, 2006, at 6:08 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
>
>   
>>    6:13pm  up 300 days,  7:23,  1 user,  load average: 0.95, 0.95,  
>> 0.91
>>
>> -- 
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
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