Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

[Philip Webb]

Thanks for the responses to my inquiry re how long systems stay up.

My feeling for electronics is that equipment needs stability :
temperature + humidity should not vary much
& electrons need to flow thro' wires regularly.
That suggests a machine will do better if left running.

I don't like the idea of phoning my ISP's help desk
with an ill-defined problem : I can't be sure it will recur
if they ask me to go thro' a few restart cycles ;
the staff are probably trained to offer a few simple solutions ;
they may simply offer to send me a new router
or worse to send me a modem instead, which is harder to set up.
The problem probably lies in their server :
my router enjoys constant conditions & shows no other signs of wear ;
if that's the case, ISP help staff may not even know what has changed.

I'm planning to build a new machine in the next few weeks,
so I also now plan to set it up to do suspend, hibernate etc ;
I've grabbed a few dox which explain what's involved.
Mick mentioned 'S3' = 'sleep' & 'S4' = 'hibernation' in this connection :
what do they mean ?  Do they correspond to saving to RAM/disk ?

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