On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/08/2015 06:04, Philip Webb wrote: >> How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots ? >> How long between power off/on's ? >> > > Mine depends. I typically do a deliberate reboot only when wanting a new > kernel running. Sometimes it's a few days, often up to a month or more. >
++ Typically I reboot every week or two. I try to keep up with stable kernel releases on the latest longterm branch (currently 3.18.20). I'm currently at 19 days, which is a bit on the high side for me, but it seems like 3.18 hasn't had as many updates as some of the other stable series. If you keep a closer eye on security issues and care to track which kernel fixes you do or don't accept, or want to mess with kernel live patching, then you could go longer. I also like to reboot at some frequency just so that if for whatever reason it doesn't reboot I only have a few week's worth of system updates to look at to figure out what changed. I have Gentoo hosts that I don't stay on top of as often and when 5 things break at once I'm playing guessing games (those hosts are all easy to snapshot). -- Rich
