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.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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