People leave their PC on constantly? I understand leaving servers running but i always turn my PC on in the morning, then off at night once im finished.
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My Arch system stays on until a firmware package needs an update. Then i cry and scream bc it's only been a month since the last one. Also I just updated a bunch of those, so my system has not been on long.
I made Windows XP run for 40 days using a custom shell. Things got a bit weird, I ran defrag and memory optimization often.
I've never had a Windows machine that can stay on longer than ~3 days before developing weird behaviour so it's off right now until I get home.
07:38:25 up 15 days, 15:54, 2 users, load average: 2,93, 2,24, 1,65
Uptime: 26d 17h 44m
23m,Short ik.
There was a period where I was testing my laptop's hibernation so I got uptime to around 30 days.
But now, The highest uptime I can reach is around 2-3 days if I forget to turn it off and leave it either plugged in or on a high battery so it lasts until the next day.
53 min
I have an Nvidia GPU and suspend/resume works about 20% of the time so my PC is shutdown every time I won't use it for a few hours. Don't use my personal computer that much so it doesn't really bother me a lot. My laptop is however long the battery lasts with the lid closed, I don't use it much so most times I pick it up it's dead.
It depends. Sometimes I shut it down every night. Occasionally, I'll leave it in sleep mode for a few days.
I think the longest uptime I've had on anything I've owned is probably a month or so on a Raspberry Pi 4 server I used to have running with a personal Mediawiki instance (I still have the Pi, but if I ran a server in my dorm, I have the feeling someone might come to bite off my hand).
I think my desktop has been on the past couple days because I've been too lazy to turn it off because I caught the flu and basically slept the past couple days away.
12 days and 17 hours. As another commenter pointed out, checked with uptime
up 1 day, 8 hours, 2 minutes
I had about 300 days of uptime on my server but I did some hardware maintenance recently. I'm back up to like 20 but I need to do more stuff.
I did find a fun "bug" the other day with windows and how it tracks uptime. Since shutting down hibernates the kernel it doesn't treat it as time off. So when I fired up this surface I hadn't used in a long time it had 180 days of uptime.
55 days, 34 mins
Edit: my Mac mini (the torrent client) is 199 days.
I turn it off every night or if I'm away for many hours, so about 10 minutes right now.
I do have a Raspberry Pi that's been up 12 weeks, 5 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes. I believe there was a planned power outage when it was lasted turned off.
Mine turned off yesterday for an update.
As of today about 10 years not counting the odd driver restart
My work laptop has been up for 26 days, 17:24. My primary server at home has been online for 42 days, 21:27. Personal laptop - 45 days, 20:51. The primary server of my exocortex has been online and crunching away for 278 days, 19:48.
Last time it was off was during the summer holidays.
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.