I have been going strong for 34 days and 5 hours.
You can check by running inxi in the command line or checking the CPU in Mission Center
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 -pfor 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
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
As AOL guy once said
“You got mail”
Damnn what an uptime! Cheer to that!
At last, a fellow sysadmin! Nice work.
Default username: “dr” ?
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.
Eh, like that’s fair its personal preference but the energy waste of just having your PC idle is just weird to me. (Folding@home is totally reasonable)
Those proteins and RNAs are now the domain of deep learning, thankyouverymuch! Pull the plug!
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.
Because they’re processing data all the time? They’re doing work?
Mm, fair if you are running some task while you’re not “actively” using the PC. Although given the general sentiment of people in the replies, the leading reason is “I’m lazy” or “its convenient”.
Everybody uses computers for different things.
No arguments here
like 8 hours
I shut it down every day, start up times are fast enough that it doesn’t bother me
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
Why do you think it’s different?
A server needs to be available, a PC doesn’t. As long as your PC is not serving something 24/7.
Are you telling that to others or me?
I think you should tell that to others
There is no benefit in letting your PC run for days, its just waste of energy and bad behaviour.
When you hibernate, “uptime” counts it even though the computer is off, as it’s more of a “time since cold boot”.
So I turn off my computer every day, but have an uptime of weeks now.
Nice, so you are turning off your computer and pad your “uptime”. clap
I’m just explaining how people end up with high uptimes despite not keeping their computer on all the time. There is no purpose to “padding your uptime”.
Usually only as long as I play games. After that, I shut it off. Why?
- I run Bazzite, which updates itself in the background, but needs a restart to complete
- It boots in seconds, because modern hard drives are crazy fast
- The standby-LED is annoying when I sleep
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! 😴
i’ve been shutting down linux desktops most every day lately, and turning them on only when i want to use one.
mines off as we speak. I always turn it off at night.
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.
I know right I do the same but for my home pc it’s easier to get into the groove when it’s all in front of you in 3 seconds
About 90 mins. I shut it down when i finish every and turn it off at the wall (fuskibg standby LEDs). I can go days without booting it back up. I use #LMDE
Flashing standby light on my monitor drives me nuts let alone the bajillion standby LEDs that would be on in our lounge if we didn’t turn everything off at the wall every night.
You can get power strips that will sense the load on one outlet and shut all the others off if the load is below a certain amount. They are handy for shutting off those annoying standby LEDs automatically.
On any command line you can likely just run a single letter command:
wMine is off at the moment.
I don’t run any servers and leccy is expensive, they go off when I’m done using them!
My laptop gets shut down every night, booted every morning. If I suspend it sometimes spontaneously wakes later, but boot is so fast anyway so it’s fine.
My server gets updated and rebooted weekly. I don’t bother checking CVE bulletins, I just upgrade weekly.
I generally only reboot for stuff like kernel updates.
