how long have you had your desktop fedora core running before you need to restart?

[stephanie.steve]

I'm still using fedora 7 because I still haven't figured out how to dual boot bartpe/fedora 8 on usb stick to install them but I haven't been looking much anyways.. the system I have now I use as a regular machine and not a server or anything so I'll run vmware with windows xp under there sometimes and have folding@home running 24/7 pretty much so things will get slow after awhile :X gkrellm tells me my computer has been up 4 days and 43 minutes straight so far with no restart and no session changing around this time I'll start to feel the slowness now but vs. windows no contest :X I remember having to restart a few times a day on my old computer :0 I'm curious to know how long can your machine last when you run it normally before you need to restart.. this computer I'm using now is the first ever I built myself from parts I ordered online and I think it's a pretty good one minus the video card and it's using ide cables instead of sata

processor - amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor 6000+
video card(I'll never buy ati again probably :X) - ati radeon x800 xl (I didn't pick it my friend did
ram - G.SKILL 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
hard drive - 300gb maxtor 6l300r0
mobo - BIOSTAR NF520-A2 AM2 NVIDIA nForce 520 MCP ATX AMD
etc.

this wasn't my dream machine but the next one will be quad core, 500 dollar video card and 100 dollar keyboard/mouse.. ohh :X lol

[glennzo]

There are servers running some form of Linux that have been up for years, literally. Here at home I've had a machine that was up for several months. It was something I hesitate to call a server, but it's sole purpose was printing and backup for the other computers on the household network. Can't keep computers up for an extremely long time here. Being 2 miles from a power station the power goes out often. Go figure.

[leadgolem]

About 2 months. I finally restarted the system after I had done a major update.
EDIT: Try totally shutting down firefox periodically. There seems to be a leak in the firefox flash plugin that isn't resolved by just navigating away from a page with flash on it. I needed to shut down firefox about every 2 days during my 2 months. We have nearly identical systems too.

[stephanie.steve]

ah.. yeah :X next time when I get fedora 8 on here I"ll do swiftfox and not a 64bit fedora 8 but an i386 until things like flash or w/e are 64bit as well kinda ruins the whole purpose since some stuff like that can be pretty big ;(

[pete_1967]

I only restart if there's an update requiring it (e.g. kernel).

Current 11:23:39 up 20 days, 19:54, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.18, 0.07

for comparison; my work desktop running FC6: 11:26:04 up 41 days, 18:36, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00

[schwim]

I shut down last week for going away and had been up over 60 days. During that time, I restarted Firefox twice to trigger addon updates.

I never have to restart. I do it when I travel or during a storm though.

Keep in mind that I don't update. It works fine and I'll be damned if I'm going to screw with that

thanks,
json

[tw2113]

15:37:09 up 10 days, 3:34, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.10, 0.07

[crainey69]

I'm constantly playing...this is my hobby and my career. 8 hours a day, I keep systems up mostly Windows, However many hours a day I'm a at home and awake, I try to break my Fedora install to learn.

When I don't break it myself, my oldest daughter snags the computer and reboots it into Windows.


If it wasn't for her and ME, I think it would run indefinately.

[zoccadoum]

Development machine: (fc7)
Uptime: 22:09:01 up 29 days, 15:13

Web Server (at home):
Uptime: 22:51:50 up 152 days, 22:52 (FC6)

Laptop: (fc8)
Uptime: ... 6 hours

[stephanie.steve]

do any of you run your processor or ram 100% though? folding@home uses both of my cores at 100% each and things like firefox will fight over it's usage lord forbid I try and do vmware with windows rite now cause it will be soo slow hah 5 days and 22 minutes rite now think that's the farthest I've gone atm

[daverj]

mail and webserver running CentOS 5

orion:davidj ~ > uptime
23:49:26 up 154 days, 6:49, 16 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.03

[NavyChief]

Right now my FAH Farm is at 11 days & counting, they could easily go 60 to 90 days
but I have to keep up with my old navy habits of doing PM ( planned maintenance).

so one saturday morning each month I shut everything down, take off the side covers
and blow out the dust bunnies.

[brunson]

I was very disappointed when I had to upgrade one of my servers from FC4, it had been up for 476 days. I hated to see the uptime die, but it was necessary.

[tw2113]

I'm up to 17 days now

[stephanie.steve]

oh common work that machine to the bone*! haha.. I want to here screaming <3