Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
> > Your microsoft background is showing again ;)
> >
> > Old school linux people don't like to reboot - I usually get 40-100 days
> > uptime on my desktop boxes, rebooting for kernel upgrades. I'm a little
> > more conservative on my home servers, and they routinely have 6 month
> > uptimes. At work we tend to have the 400-600 day uptimes in the server
> > room.
>
> I run servers 24x7, but I shut my desktop machine down when it's not
> being used to conserve power.  I used to rarely reboot my laptop, just
> suspend/resume it, but 10.2 totally broke suspend/resume so now I'm
> forced to actually shut it down.

Well the way I look at it is any "wasted power" goes into the house as
heat, which, in Seattle would be welcome.

Its actually easier on the hard drive to run a few extra hours then to
spin up cold.

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John Andersen