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
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.
BlueEther@BlueEthers-MacBook-Air ~ % uptime 17:18 up 47 days, 6:26, 2 users, load averages: 2.19 2.61 2.56blueaether@lemmy:~$ uptime 04:25:37 up 204 days, 19:45, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.16The TV/server has been up for 38 days, I think it got turned off by mistake last month
55 days, 34 mins
Edit: my Mac mini (the torrent client) is 199 days.
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
0 hours.
It is currently off because I don’t leave it running overnight when I am not using it.
i turn my pc off when im not using it to save power; i thought this was normal.
Mine boots in 35s, according to
systemd-analyze critical-chainwith 4 of those seconds attributed to me typing in my password.I’m astounded anyone would leave their machine on overnight.
(At the same time, I’m quite happy to leave my phone in light sleep mode overnight with airplane mode on, so I clearly have some double-standards here)
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
Hibernate is even better with a fast SSD.
Yeah same here, my current uptime is 3.5 hours lol
That was my family’s email server 5 months ago:
So roughly 2500 days today 🙂
As AOL guy once said
“You got mail”
Damnn what an uptime! Cheer to that!
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
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?
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 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!
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”.
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?).
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”.
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
mines off as we speak. I always turn it off at night.
i’ve been shutting down linux desktops most every day lately, and turning them on only when i want to use one.
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.
Exactly. I have services running with staggered automated updates/reboots to keep things stable. Since at least one of them is always available, it’s like having no down-time but with actual stability and redundancy.
This is the way
