How long do you leave your Computer on at a time?

[CPUShack]

I just rebooted after 40 days of uptime, which is about typical on my machine how about you?

And WHY do you reboot (for me its windows updates)

[Cpuswe]

Same here. Always on, its just a update or a software installation that makes a reboot necessary.

[andamus]

I have a wide variety of "up-time", my "job-machine" is rebooted a couple of time a day, home computer is turned off every night, while the firewall I've putted in my parents house is not rebooet since early 2006 ....

[D.8080]

Crashes, updates.

Downloading machine is always on, my personal pc is turned off each night if not needed or if games don't crash

Best record almost two months.

[hugo929]

I turn mine off each night in order to save power

[g0b]

I never reboot or switch off mine. I way for windows to crash and reboot

g0b

[Heartbreak one]

My computer is in my bedroom, so i turn it off every night.

[JAC]

I turn mine off when I am done each day. On all my computers I also have one of those power bars with a hot socket connected to the computer PSU. It kills all power to everything else plugged into the strip when the PC is off.

[el_gecko]

I turn mine off each night to save power too. Since some years, in Europe there are a lot of ecological politics and there is a huge work to do in peoples' minds
Last year was very very important in this field and a lot of people try to reduce their energy consumption now.
We have to save the planet guys! Wake up!

[Borris70]

[Qwerty]

I turn off my main computer every night.

My firewall / file server is on since about 200 days. I turn it off only for maintenance purposes. Linux is a quite stable OS, which desn't need reboots
I fitted it with Geode NX 1750+ and a 2.5" HD, that's why it consumes only 30W (about 50W @ full load).

[debs3759]

Currently only a few days up-time due to updates. I've had up to 2 months with this Win 2K system.

I hope soon to have a system set up that can stay connected for years at a time (going to be setting up at least one PC with Linux, one with Solaris, an IBM RS6000 that will have AIX, a couple of DEC systems and a couple of Sun systems all with various flavours of Unix).

[Windmiller]

[i440bx]

I selected 2-6 Days, because my Sys is off every night, but our Familyserver runs 27/7.

[Marcin]

only one thing in my home works 24h per day 365days per year without turning off - dsl wifi accesspoint router. My main PC is so ANTI ENERGY EFFICIENT and works only when I need it. VIA C3 PC which I use for P2P I turn on for some weeks about few times per year.

But at work I have small dell server on PII 400 (i440BX and XP) and it have up time about 90 days