On Wednesday 23 February 2005 07:36 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > This just an idle question really ... > > > > Over the years people have told me how stable their linux set ups are, > > and that there is no need to log off, or shut down each day. How valid > > is this? In Windows I always used to shut down at end of the day. > > WinXP wasn't so bad, but both 95 and 98 required lots of reboots. I did > > have mandrake going all night last night as I had been to the easyurpmi > > site and it took forever to update the data base. > > Is it good for the computer to leave it on all the time? > > > > Thanks > > Rosemary > > I like to "tinker" too much, so the bast I have managed is to have a > system up and runniing for about 300 days. This was a firewall/mail > gateway/web server connected to the Internet 24/7. The only time it was > unhappy was when a car hit the power poll down the street. The UPS ran > out of power before they restored power to my house. Its harder to get > that kind of uptimes if you are running cutting edge, and connected > directly to the internet - you end up having to update the kernel more > often then that now days. If it were not for kernel updates, a Linux box > on a good UPS would go for years without a reboot. I remember that discussion IIRC you were online at the time your syatem crashed and you recovered rather quickly > > Mikkel
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