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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

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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I have a drive that's roughly 13 years old, and has around 11 years 80 days of power on time if that says how much my computer is on.

I only restart it when windows updates start fucking with my networking or my audio drives entirely shit the bed.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

As of today about 10 years not counting the odd driver restart

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I turn mine off to save power when I'm not actively using it. I have a small 65 watt server that stays on all the time. Currently it has been up for 3 months or so.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Only a few days, maybe 12 if I had to guess. Im running with memory overcommit disabled and building a rust project with vscode and Firefox open will hang the kernel eventually. I caved to the kernel's expectations and set up a swap partition but it still dies.

I should say it's been on for probably 2 years straight ignoring reboots

[–] Trilobite@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I never turn it off it gets an occasional reset when updates need to be installed but that's about it

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Mine turned off yesterday for an update.

[–] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

My main PC only stays on for a couple days at a time (on sleep/hibernate when not in use) only because I'm generally too lazy to shut all programs down. I reboot on updates though, which is every couple days.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

I reboot mine when I'm bored

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

55 days, 34 mins

Edit: my Mac mini (the torrent client) is 199 days.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I have a well-fenced server that I inherited 20 years ago and, but for power outages, has been in operation throughout. It survived a p2v but will not survive the coming v2v. #rhel4 #vmscare

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

I have all my devices set to reboot once weekly a few hours after daily scheduled updates. I probably don't need to do this, but I do. It's a habit I got in with scheduling router reboots, and then started extending it to other devices. It's nice to have some solid uptime, but I have three unbound DNS servers in sequence so they update and reboot on a staggered schedule so it's like they never go down.

You never know when the odd cosmic ray is gonna hit and flip yer bits.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

34 days without booting? Are you using a Debian system and don't update often? You should, for security patches at least. I'm on an Arch based system and update every day. Sometimes there are updates that require a reboot, so all services are up to date. My system is often up for a few days, sometimes even for a week.

Small tip, logging out and in will have a semi clean environment without a full boot. That means the uptime won't reset.

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