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On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 30/08/2015 06:04, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots ? |
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>> How long between power off/on's ? |
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> Mine depends. I typically do a deliberate reboot only when wanting a new |
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> kernel running. Sometimes it's a few days, often up to a month or more. |
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Typically I reboot every week or two. I try to keep up with stable |
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kernel releases on the latest longterm branch (currently 3.18.20). |
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I'm currently at 19 days, which is a bit on the high side for me, but |
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it seems like 3.18 hasn't had as many updates as some of the other |
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stable series. |
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If you keep a closer eye on security issues and care to track which |
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kernel fixes you do or don't accept, or want to mess with kernel live |
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patching, then you could go longer. I also like to reboot at some |
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frequency just so that if for whatever reason it doesn't reboot I only |
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have a few week's worth of system updates to look at to figure out |
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what changed. I have Gentoo hosts that I don't stay on top of as |
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often and when 5 things break at once I'm playing guessing games |
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(those hosts are all easy to snapshot). |
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Rich |
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