Whats the longest you have gone without a reboot?

[Descartes]

About 6 months on a Windows NT 4 box. About a year with a Linux box.

 

[Savij]

I topped out at ~270 days for my FreeBSD machine. Power outage w/o UPS killed my record attempt and my harddrive.

 

[MournSanity]

I always shut mine off before I go to bed. I worry about energy costs especially since I'm living with my parents. BTW, all of you guys who leave your computers on for weeks, how much does your electricity bill run? Just wondering...

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: hypersonic5
I always shut mine off before I go to bed. I worry about energy costs especially since I'm living with my parents. BTW, all of you guys who leave your computers on for weeks, how much does your electricity bill run? Just wondering...

PC's use very little electricity when not doing anything. As long as you turn the monitor off and aren't running any type of distributed computing program (or any other type of program which has the CPU under constant full load), then the average newer PC will use about the equivalent of a single 60W light bulb (it's tough to say exactly though as components vary).
I can't pick my PC's out of my electric bill to tell you just how much they cost, but my electric bill at ~6 cents/KwH was about $60 last month, and that includes running the AC (on hot days), clothes dryer, fridge, oven/stove, dishwasher, lights (turned off when no one is in the room), etc. in addition to 3 PC's. Water heater and furnace (not run in summer) are gas.

 

[sandorski]

The longest I know of: 34 days using Win98SE , k6-2 500 , and a VIA MP3 based mobo . Had to install some drivers.

 

[her209]

Haven't rebooted yet since 1994.

 

[Eli]

All you people turning your computer off at night are silly.

They don't use that much power, maybe 100W sitting idle if you have a loaded system.

Plus, heating up/cooling down isn't good for components.

Hell, I leave my monitor on 24/7 too.

 

[Koing]

About 11 days then my dad turned it off

 

[MournSanity]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: hypersonic5
I always shut mine off before I go to bed. I worry about energy costs especially since I'm living with my parents. BTW, all of you guys who leave your computers on for weeks, how much does your electricity bill run? Just wondering...

PC's use very little electricity when not doing anything. As long as you turn the monitor off and aren't running any type of distributed computing program (or any other type of program which has the CPU under constant full load), then the average newer PC will use about the equivalent of a single 60W light bulb (it's tough to say exactly though as components vary).
I can't pick my PC's out of my electric bill to tell you just how much they cost, but my electric bill at ~6 cents/KwH was about $60 last month, and that includes running the AC (on hot days), clothes dryer, fridge, oven/stove, dishwasher, lights (turned off when no one is in the room), etc. in addition to 3 PC's. Water heater and furnace (not run in summer) are gas.

Wow that's pretty cheap lol. Last month's electricity bill for me was around $140(I'm in LA). It was like a $40 increase over the last month I believe. It's too bad I can't run distributed computing projects without it consuming more electricity. I was hoping to run SETI@home quite a bit when I build my next rig soon. Hmmm....I wonder if I could get solar panels lol....

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: hypersonic5

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: hypersonic5
I always shut mine off before I go to bed. I worry about energy costs especially since I'm living with my parents. BTW, all of you guys who leave your computers on for weeks, how much does your electricity bill run? Just wondering...

PC's use very little electricity when not doing anything. As long as you turn the monitor off and aren't running any type of distributed computing program (or any other type of program which has the CPU under constant full load), then the average newer PC will use about the equivalent of a single 60W light bulb (it's tough to say exactly though as components vary).
I can't pick my PC's out of my electric bill to tell you just how much they cost, but my electric bill at ~6 cents/KwH was about $60 last month, and that includes running the AC (on hot days), clothes dryer, fridge, oven/stove, dishwasher, lights (turned off when no one is in the room), etc. in addition to 3 PC's. Water heater and furnace (not run in summer) are gas.

Wow that's pretty cheap lol. Last month's electricity bill for me was around $140(I'm in LA). It was like a $40 increase over the last month I believe. It's too bad I can't run distributed computing projects without it consuming more electricity. I was hoping to run SETI@home quite a bit when I build my next rig soon. Hmmm....I wonder if I could get solar panels lol....

LOL.. your PC really doesen't use enough electricity to bother not running a program because of electricty usage. Think about it. The very most it could ever possibly use is the wattage of your power supply.

Even then, the only way you're using less electricity by not running a program is if you're running a cpu-idle program, or I guess using win2k/xp.

 

[kindest]

i usually go about 35 days (XP) then install 500 fixes
then reboot, and repeat.

 

[dawks]

115 days on Windows XP with daily use of 5-7 hours, including gaming and webdesign with photoshop and the sort. Also a webserver running full time hosting 4 active websited. Only lost the uptime due to a 1 second power outtage

Im currently going on 14 days. last reboot due to new ATI drivers.

My system is rock solid. Good ole PII 400, with 256ram.. I've had the CPU at 100% for three years now 24/7, running RC-5. And still going strong

 

[MournSanity]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: hypersonic5

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: hypersonic5
I always shut mine off before I go to bed. I worry about energy costs especially since I'm living with my parents. BTW, all of you guys who leave your computers on for weeks, how much does your electricity bill run? Just wondering...

PC's use very little electricity when not doing anything. As long as you turn the monitor off and aren't running any type of distributed computing program (or any other type of program which has the CPU under constant full load), then the average newer PC will use about the equivalent of a single 60W light bulb (it's tough to say exactly though as components vary).
I can't pick my PC's out of my electric bill to tell you just how much they cost, but my electric bill at ~6 cents/KwH was about $60 last month, and that includes running the AC (on hot days), clothes dryer, fridge, oven/stove, dishwasher, lights (turned off when no one is in the room), etc. in addition to 3 PC's. Water heater and furnace (not run in summer) are gas.

Wow that's pretty cheap lol. Last month's electricity bill for me was around $140(I'm in LA). It was like a $40 increase over the last month I believe. It's too bad I can't run distributed computing projects without it consuming more electricity. I was hoping to run SETI@home quite a bit when I build my next rig soon. Hmmm....I wonder if I could get solar panels lol....

LOL.. your PC really doesen't use enough electricity to bother not running a program because of electricty usage. Think about it. The very most it could ever possibly use is the wattage of your power supply.

Even then, the only way you're using less electricity by not running a program is if you're running a cpu-idle program, or I guess using win2k/xp.

Hmmm, that's what I got from Vic's post. *Confused*



*Shuts off computer*

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: dmurray14

Originally posted by: NoReMoRsE

Originally posted by: amdskip
127 days on Windows 2k

And you only got 35 megs in that time? For shame!

ditto

Those are packets, boys, not bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, or terabytes.

 

[Ylen13]

6 month, never turn off the computer

 

[NoReMoRsE]

Originally posted by: BillGates

Originally posted by: dmurray14

Originally posted by: NoReMoRsE

Originally posted by: amdskip 127 days on Windows 2k

And you only got 35 megs in that time? For shame!

ditto

Those are packets, boys, not bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, or terabytes.

My bad.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: hypersonic5

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: hypersonic5

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: hypersonic5
I always shut mine off before I go to bed. I worry about energy costs especially since I'm living with my parents. BTW, all of you guys who leave your computers on for weeks, how much does your electricity bill run? Just wondering...

PC's use very little electricity when not doing anything. As long as you turn the monitor off and aren't running any type of distributed computing program (or any other type of program which has the CPU under constant full load), then the average newer PC will use about the equivalent of a single 60W light bulb (it's tough to say exactly though as components vary).
I can't pick my PC's out of my electric bill to tell you just how much they cost, but my electric bill at ~6 cents/KwH was about $60 last month, and that includes running the AC (on hot days), clothes dryer, fridge, oven/stove, dishwasher, lights (turned off when no one is in the room), etc. in addition to 3 PC's. Water heater and furnace (not run in summer) are gas.

Wow that's pretty cheap lol. Last month's electricity bill for me was around $140(I'm in LA). It was like a $40 increase over the last month I believe. It's too bad I can't run distributed computing projects without it consuming more electricity. I was hoping to run SETI@home quite a bit when I build my next rig soon. Hmmm....I wonder if I could get solar panels lol....

LOL.. your PC really doesen't use enough electricity to bother not running a program because of electricty usage. Think about it. The very most it could ever possibly use is the wattage of your power supply.

Even then, the only way you're using less electricity by not running a program is if you're running a cpu-idle program, or I guess using win2k/xp.

Hmmm, that's what I got from Vic's post. *Confused*



*Shuts off computer*

PCs never use as much as the wattage of the power supply. In fact, the only reason for big 400W+ power supplies is for the inital power-on spike. Also, power usage WILL vary depending on cpu load, hard drive seeking, memory usage, graphics card utilization, etc.
Eli is right though, DC programs (like seti) won't raise the power usage by much. But then that totally depends on the cpu. An older P3 would never use more than 25W while a new 3G P4 could pull up to 70W under full load.
Without question, PCs consume the absolute most power while online gaming. Monitor on pulling max juice (usually ~100W), vid card pulling up to 20W, cpu pulling up to 70W, mainboard at 20W, drives at 10W each (while actually seeking, ~5W at idle), sound card at ~10W, network card at ~5W, cable modem at 20W, router at 20W, fans at about 1-2W each, and you still haven't broken 300W -- roughly the same as having the TV on.
And all that usage drops to 40W or so when you stop doing anything on it and turn the monitor off...

btw, the school of thought is that your computer will last longer if you leave it on 24/7. An IT guy explained this to me years ago. "When does a lightbulb usually blow?" When you turn it on. PCs are the same way.

 

[chin311]

at work i left my pc on for about 62 days, before they had to reboot it installing some lamer updates!!1 grrr, my record could still be going :|

 

[oniq]

Hmm.. reading this thread got me thinking. I've been shutting off my PC lately to save electricity, but it seems that it really doesn't matter. I think I'll leave it on from now on, I end up turning it on and off everyday anyway, so I guess that can't be good for the computer in the long run.

 

[Atlantean]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Atlantean

Originally posted by: Eli
~40 days.

Back when my system was stable.. It's been horribly unstable these last few months.

Wow thats quite a long time. I usually reboot once a week just for the hell of it, and because of new software being installed that wants me to reboot before using it.

I hate rebooting. I would never reboot if I didn't have to.

I like being able to just leave my computer in the state that its in, and come back to all the open IE windows/etc that I've been looking at, especially when I'm researching.

Ditto, I hate rebooting, but sometimes when I install new programs it wants me to reboot. Running windows xp pro... its probably better for it to leave it on all the time than it is to constantly turn it on and off.

 

[DanJ]

About 20 days on my main PC. On my file server probably more like 120 days.

Both XP Pro.

 

[MistaTastyCakes]

6 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes, 37 seconds and counting. I usually do it once every couple days for whatever reason but lately I haven't been using my PC much, if at all.

 

[Ryan]

How about "I don't know because I don't give a fvck about st00pid sh!t like that"?

j/k

 

[IamElectro]

284 days and some odd hours on my sever running Redhat 7.2. Rebooted yesterday as a matter of fact

 

[psianime]

Every few days because something always happens to my computer.