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Best uptime with a Powerbook?
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Tomster
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Mar 20, 2004, 05:10 PM
 
I wondered what everyone's best uptime (time between restarts - man uptime in terminal for more info) was for their Powerbook. Unlike servers which sit in closets without any human interaction, Powerbooks are carried around and utilized daily. So how much time between restarts?

I had one Powerbook up to 137 days uptime - no crashes, and of course, no system updates. Finally could not stand having my OS way out of date and updated everything. Currently I restart only when installed software required it. On average, it's every two to three weeks before something I install makes me restart. The last one was SideTrack. (Thanks Basilisk! )

What's everyone else's experiences?
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cambro
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Mar 20, 2004, 05:17 PM
 
The only time I ever restart is when Apple releases software updates.

I run MySQL so it is easy to see how long the server has been up and running without interruption. I think my longest stretch was about 35 days and I thought that was pretty good. 137 days is bada$$!

OS X is rock solid on solid hardware. Gotta love it.
     
   
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