What's your uptime like?

[protegechris]

Just wondering, what kind of uptime do you guys get?

Here's a screenshot from my server computer, 40+ days on a 700mhz

Using remote entrance really kills its CPU

[zootm]

My 600MHz laptop (Windows XP) has about 3 months uptime.

This computer (Windows XP) is rebooted at night.

My 200MHz (MMX) Linux router had an uptime of 210 days or so when it was turned off.

[Wolfgang]

what's uptime?

[zootm]

How long it was since your computer was turned on (how long it's been "up").

[S-uper_T-oast]

This computer has been running for almost a year. The last time it was shut off was one the power went out.

My laptop runs for about and hour at a time. At one time it ran for about 4 months straight.

[Wolfgang]

Ah...

I hibernate my laptop a lot of the time. I usually shut it down properly after I've installed lots of stuff, or after several weeks.

[psyfive]

my uptime is only a few minutes... probably why my ex dumped me

My computer has been up for around 4 hours this time because we had a blackout earlier. Longest uptime is around 2 1/2 weeks.

[zootm]

Originally posted by Wolfgang
I hibernate my laptop a lot of the time. I usually shut it down properly after I've installed lots of stuff, or after several weeks.

My laptop routes internet for my flat, so I can't turn it off. The linux box I mentioned above was only turned off because I had to move it.

[deeder7001]

the most uptime i've had on my computer was 20 days and a few hours. the current uptime is about 7 hours 41 minutes.

[Jaak]

jaak@debian:~$ uptime
07:48:11 up 23 min, 3 users, load average: 0.43, 0.41, 0.31

[Kieran Walker]

Current Session
UpTime 470063 sec (5 days, 10 hours, 34 min, 23 sec)

I've gone for several weeks without rebooting this thing, but it tends to get bitchy pretty fast.

[NJK]

Current uptime is 5 days (had to reboot to get some software running)

the longest uptime was near 8 months (shutdown due to power failure in the town i used to live).

[Mr Jones]

My box at work managed about 7 months until the building got hit by lightning and we had a power cut :-/

[mysterious_w]

My box is normally on for about 9 hours a day and I normally leave it on standby at night. And my parents normally shut it down when they use it, so uptime isn't an issue for me.

[PulseDriver]

Uptime if for nerds who think they pwn. Except for servers which host high traffic.

[NJK]

Originally posted by PulseDriver
Uptime if for nerds who think they pwn. Except for servers which host high traffic.

excuse me, you seem to forget that the threadstarter and yourstruly both have a radiostation running , so uptime is very important to us.

Does that make us nerds???? You should think before posting something. I am in no way a nerd and knowing Chris he isn't either.

[Leonhart]

My works computer usually stays one all throught the week, and only gets shutdown at the end for the weekend.

[PulseDriver]

Yeah, one thing is to have uptime, another is bragging about it in the winamp forums :P

Why would you need to let your computer stay on day and night unless it's a server..?
I always shut mine down at night and a few times a day when it's not used, so uptime almost never reaches 6 hours.

Shutting down not only saves (a lot of) power, but it's healthy for your registry and stuff too.

[NJK]

Originally posted by PulseDriver
Yeah, one thing is to have uptime, another is bragging about it in the winamp forums :P

either your understanding of the english language is poor or you don't get the point of this thread.

there is nobody bragging about their uptime!!!!!

Just another what do you do thread or how do you have this or that.

and Michgelsen stated it nicely

why should you need to let your computer stay on day and night unless it's a server

[shoutcast101]

Originally posted by protegechris
Just wondering, what kind of uptime do you guys get?

Here's a screenshot from my server computer, 40+ days on a 700mhz

Using remote entrance really kills its CPU

nice uptime

btw, what is the name of the SQL app you are using?

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by spaceplay


why should you need to let your computer stay on day and night unless it's a server

Because...
A) Windows 2000 dosn't exactly boot quickly at the best of times.
B) I don't have time to wait for the dumb ass network login system to do it's thing at work, whenever you log on a machine to the network it does an auto virus scan, downloads the latest sig files over the network, runs various other network apps to sign the machine on,chugs away connecting the various network drives, it's just the stupid way our admins have configured up the logon.

When I get into work I wanna sit down, press CTRL+ALT+Delete, unlock my workstation and be ready to go in a matter of seconds, not have to wait 10 minutes for it to boot and login.

The virus sig definitions I can set to manually download as a background task once I'm logged in, and as it's real time scanning anyhow there is no need for me to do a cold sweep of the machine every morning.

Oh, and C), it's not my electricity supply it's connected to, so why should I give a toss if it's on or off, not like I'm paying for it

[Chebyrator]

Well i turn my computer off everyday. I have no antivirus system so it boots pretty fast, plus it's a fresh install.
i am am the person paying for the electricity. although it doesn't take much(i think)

[Wolfgang]

Hibernation rocks. It takes about 10 seconds between pressing the power button and me typing in my password.

[shoutcast101]

Originally posted by shoutcast101
nice uptime

btw, what is the name of the SQL app you are using?

nvm I looked at the screenshot a bit harder and worked it out . It just looked different from the last time I tryed it.

Shame it isnt in development any more. You should get yourself MySQl Administrator. Better statistices

[protegechris]

Yeah it's MySQL control center, it's simple enough for me, I've got administrator as well but I haven't bothered to mess with it.

[xzxzzx]

Hmm.
/Fires up PuTTY

code:
Using username "root".

Authenticating with public key "******** xzxzzx ****" from agent

Last login: Wed Apr  6 14:00:32 2005 from ***.***.***.***

legolas root # uptime

 14:35:41 up 65 days, 22:23,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

65 days. Since that machine had its O/S installed, actually.

[ScorLibran]

Originally posted by Michgelsen
Why would you need to let your computer stay on day and night unless it's a server..?

Because I use scheduled tasks to maintain the health of my systems (spyware scans, antivirus scans, disk cleanup, defragmentation, registry scans, etc.)

I don't use sleep mode because I use shared network drives, and different machines run tasks at different times through the night using those shared drives. I'll let power management shut down screens and disks, but the systems are still always up and available.

With proper maintenance I've had uptimes extending over a year, yet none of my PCs are servers. With the advent of some really good maintenance utilities in the past few years I haven't needed to incur the additional wear of power cycling my PCs on any regular basis.

[Psythik]

My uptime counter doesn't reset when I return from hibernate, therefore, my personal record is three months.

[griffinn]

Priapism is a dangerous medical condition. You should go to an ER.

Ok I guess some people have a good excuse for leaving their computers on 24/7, but still I think people often leave their computers on just because they're to lazy to shut them down and start them up. (like some of my friends)

Originally posted by Chebyrator
although it doesn't take much(i think)

It takes quite much. Well not as much as your vacuum cleaner maybe but still. It's just a waste to leave it on unless you have a good excuse.
I'm not such an environment freak, but it's a small effort to shut your computer down when it's not needed, right?

[taylormemer]

Computers are the masters of using electricity.
I've done calculations for various machines. Naturally older ones use less, so I don't generally leave this machine on. I have no need to.
I will put it into hibernate on occassions, and if it is left alone for 4 hours and is not running anything it will also go into hibernate mode to save power, or course it depends on what it is doing as well.
But I honestly think it's a healthy to shutdown a computer. It's like us humans, we need our sleep. Spinning out the fans/HDDs non-stop itnfe's my idea of a healthy listyle.

[xzxzzx]

Originally posted by taylormemer
But I honestly think it's a healthy to shutdown a computer. It's like us humans, we need our sleep. Spinning out the fans/HDDs non-stop itnfe's my idea of a healthy listyle.

Hmm. Arguably...
Fans wear out the more you run them, certainly, but I don't think that hard drives wind up with particularly more wear if you run them all the time - startup of a PC is the most strenuous on a hard drive, I'd say.

[fwgx]

Mine is currently at just over a day, but that's because I stayed over at a friends house last night so didn't come back to turn it off. It'll be shut down tonight when I go to bed.

[bemymonkey]

shut down every night... like to go easy on my poor PC... not to mention my electricity bill - 500+ watts running 24/7 for the better part of year? that must cost a fortune...

[xzxzzx]

Originally posted by bemymonkey
shut down every night... like to go easy on my poor PC... not to mention my electricity bill - 500+ watts running 24/7 for the better part of year? that must cost a fortune...

500+ watts? Not when idle...

[deeder7001]

i use my computer pretty much 24/7. i leave it on at night because i use it to play my mp3s, music helps me sleep.

[protegechris]

I heard somewhere it's better on hard drives to spin 24/7? is that a load of crap?

[Kieran Walker]

I've heard something to that effect; that it's better to leave them running to spare the drive the wear and tear of booting up every day.

Obviously, I'm no expert on the subject... I don't know the validity of that statement.

[bgesley]

Originally posted by bemymonkey
shut down every night... like to go easy on my poor PC... not to mention my electricity bill - 500+ watts running 24/7 for the better part of year? that must cost a fortune...

You should shut down your refridgerator too then..

a computer running 24/7 for a month costs about 20 bucks in California electricity bills. Which..well its not too bad.

My uptime is on average 200 hours. My record is about 1000 hours (not that I'm trying to break it). I used to have a bunch of servers running on it but meh...who really needs a personal HTTP POP3, SMTP server running.

Wasn't some IBM's super-computer's uptime around like 4 years? Is there even an official longest uptime record holder?

I dunno about harddrives having to be spinning 24/7 but the basic idea of leaving your computer on is so that you aren't bursting your hardware so much by shutting down and booting up all the time. Thats why its generally better to leave the computer running.