Ask HN: What's Your Uptime?

by michaelteter on 3/20/2023, 6:25 PM with 10 comments

Informal survey: on your primary machine, what is the uptime? And what apps do you typically keep open?

For me, M1 Macbook Air 2021, 16GB RAM. JetBrains IDEs, Firefox, Chrome, and miscellaneous other apps.

19:22 up 109 days, 14:24, 7 users, load averages: 2.75 2.67 2.76

Side note - this laptop has been on 4 continents since last reboot.

  • by zzo38computer on 3/20/2023, 9:40 PM

    Currently, I have:

      14:37:25 up 129 days, 21:43,  1 user,  load average: 0.32, 0.13, 0.07
    I keep many xterms open, and the IRC client usually also. The web browser is sometimes open. (There are also the background programs such as the SMTP server, HTTP server, NNTP server, etc.)

  • by vmoore on 3/20/2023, 8:19 PM

    I only turn on my machine when I'm using it. My only real metric is how long my machine manages to boot into an OS. So far, no drives have failed, the PC manages to boot and has done for 10 years now. Obviously when that changes, I'll just buy a new laptop.

  • by idiomaticrust on 3/20/2023, 6:33 PM

    I remember these old days when people didn't update kernels on their systems and boasted of high uptime on their private servers. Like high uptime would be an indicator of good maintenance ;)

  • by LinuxBender on 3/20/2023, 7:14 PM

    Servers / Routers / Firewalls: Never more than 2 weeks to uptake new kernels. I am personally not a fan of live kernel patching for my own things as there could be a landmine not tested by a reboot and hardware issues that a new POST would catch.

    Workstations / Laptops: Never more than 1 day. I power down everything at night including layer 2 switches, inverters, the works.

  • by emocin on 3/20/2023, 9:28 PM

    Didn’t realize this was the 90s again.