[Hg2491]

I was searching the forums and found a thread from 06 regarding MacBook's uptime. Because of the 6-months rule I decided to create a new one.

Uptime: 2d 5h 18m
Load: 0.90, 1.17, 1.24

[xjm716]

I was up to 17 days and rebooted after running Onyx.

[TheoCryst]

Just a few hours at the moment, recently restarted from Windows (stupid engineering app without a Mac version). Five hours and sixteen minutes, to be exact.

[legacyb4]

MacBook:~ legacyb4$ uptime
21:46 up 9 days, 2:17, 3 users, load averages: 0.21 0.34 0.42

[abbaZaba]

MacBook:~ abbaZaba$ uptime
1:22 up 21 days, 9:08, 2 users, load averages: 1.27 1.23 1.17


21 days bitches

[Hg2491]

Originally Posted by abbaZaba 

MacBook:~ abbaZaba$ uptime
1:22 up 21 days, 9:08, 2 users, load averages: 1.27 1.23 1.17


21 days bitches

Wow! Do you put it to sleep or have it running non-stop for all that time?

[macintologist]

My Powerbook has been up 31 days

[Andhee]

What is uptime btw? And how do I find out?

Thanks in advance

[MacosNerd]

go to the terminal and type uptime. It documents the uptime since your last reboot.

You can find the terminal in applications->utilities.

[SSharon]

You and your fancy macbooks.
My ibook is currently at 376 days. It would have been longer but my old battery died on me in class.

I use my ibook daily to take notes in class and when I am on the road to surf the web, but I always just put it to sleep rather than turn it off.

The few times an application has crashed I ssh in from my desktop and kill the process.

[abbaZaba]

no it was running the entire time. had to restart because iscrobbler stopped submitting tracks to last.fm but I was at 24 days when I restarted

[Andhee]

2 hours 24 minutes... get in there! I shut my laptop off everyday so yeah.

[vtboyarc]

is it good to shut it down? I put mine to sleep before I go to bed every night.(no pun inteneded)

[SSharon]

Originally Posted by vtboyarc 

is it good to shut it down? I put mine to sleep before I go to bed every night.(no pun inteneded)

it probably is, but as you can see with my ibook, over a year of uptime (and therefore software or security updates) hasn't had any I'll effects

[boston_errol]

Macbook:~ Errol$ uptime
17:01 up 13 days, 17:36, 2 users, load averages: 0.48 0.35 0.32

[@pplejaxkz]

anthony-computer:~ Anthony$ uptime
19:48 up 1:10, 2 users, load averages: 0.24 0.17 0.16
I must reboot a lot due to going back and forth between OSX and Fedora Core 6.

[Cold Warrior]

No set stats, but before a recent Software Update, it'd been up for several weeks.

[Krusty]

Just a few hrs shy of 21 days right now. I never reboot this thing (iBook 1.33 G4) except for updates that require a reboot.

[misecia]

my macbook is 3d.2h.44m

my mac mini media center is about 51 days.

[Tomchu]

There's no need, ever, to shut down any personal computer -- standby/sleep are power efficient enough that keeping them in such a state most of the day will not impact your monthly power consumption at all.

Putting a computer to sleep doesn't cause any wear and tear, so I don't know what this concern about ill effects comes from. :-P My Mac Mini was on for 320 days before a power outage reset my uptime. I've had my MBP up for 90 days at a time before I have to install some update or other.

[francois9]

is this one of those I-have-a-small-penis-but-look-at-my-uptime threads?

[Cold Warrior]

Originally Posted by francois9 

is this one of those I-have-a-small-penis-but-look-at-my-uptime threads?

No, but here's a thread for you: http://forums.macnn.com/89/macnn-lou...izard-devises/

[0157988944]

[legacyb4]

Surprisingly so far, since I installed Leopard on the day of release and after a single reboot afterward, it's been pretty stable on my Macbook (although the latest Mozy client keeps choking on sometime and even a force-quit won't fix it).

20:24 up 16 days, 12 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.07 0.08 0.11

[Sarc]

my longest uptime has been ~6 months on a 1.5GHz 12in PBG4.
My mom's iBook always has ~120 days.

[SSharon]

Well I went from 376 days above to 414 days. I still haven't gotten leopard so there has been no reason to reboot.

[unixfool]

Originally Posted by Tomchu 

There's no need, ever, to shut down any personal computer -- standby/sleep are power efficient enough that keeping them in such a state most of the day will not impact your monthly power consumption at all.

Putting a computer to sleep doesn't cause any wear and tear, so I don't know what this concern about ill effects comes from. :-P My Mac Mini was on for 320 days before a power outage reset my uptime. I've had my MBP up for 90 days at a time before I have to install some update or other.

At some point you'll have to shut down. Laptops are also different from desktops. Also, isn't it a no-no to call a Mac a PC?

IMO, the longer your uptime, the more risk that you're not current on updates/patches. Sure, not all *nix machines require restarting after updating. It just depends on the updates. Anything kernel-related is going to mandate a restart. A Quicktime update probably will require a restart. An iTunes update, maybe not...

Laptops are not built to act like rackmounts, no matter the OS installed. Yeah, you can put them to sleep, but in the end you're going through extremes to have an uptime to compare with other geeks (probably the sole reason for doing this on a laptop). Most of the time a machine has high uptime is because someone deems the machine to be critical enough to not want to change its software/hardware state unless absolutely necessary. Mission criticality usually determines how and sometimes when a 'production' machine receives software updates (and sometimes hardware maintenance). If someone told me that they had a 180-day uptime on their Macbook (or any Mac, for that matter), I'd highly suspect that either they're lying or that their machine has more holes than a sponge. It is much easier to get away with very high uptime with non-Mac machines, IMO, as most of the other BSD-related OSs give the admin greater control in administration (finer degrees of manual remediation/mitigation of software with vulnerabilities).

[0157988944]

QuickTime ALWAYS requires a restart...

[unixfool]

Originally Posted by adamfishercox 

QuickTime ALWAYS requires a restart...

Edited...doesn't change much but I edited nonetheless.

[BoingoBongo]

Mine never makes it more than a couple hours. I've just always been in the habit of turning computers off. Would it be better to just let it sleep?

[TyPod]

My Mac mini seems to shut off after seven days or so of keeping it on. When I turn it back on, it always says "Mac OS X quit unexpectedly". I wonder why my mini does such a thing...

[0157988944]

Originally Posted by BoingoBongo 

Mine never makes it more than a couple hours. I've just always been in the habit of turning computers off. Would it be better to just let it sleep?

If you plan to come back to it in less than 8 hours, yes. Any more than 8, and a shut down might conserve more power. I'm just yanking those figures outta my rear, though. If you pan to return soon, sleep it.

[JustinHorne]

I'm at 6 days right now, my most is just shy of a month. I never restart/shutdown unless I am somehow forced.

[BoingoBongo]

Originally Posted by adamfishercox 

If you plan to come back to it in less than 8 hours, yes. Any more than 8, and a shut down might conserve more power. I'm just yanking those figures outta my rear, though. If you pan to return soon, sleep it.

Cool, I'm going to try with just sleeping for a while and see how it works. I guess it's just a habit left over from my days with Windows. My old computers seemed to get all stuffed up if they weren't shut down often.

[Jasoco]

Elizabeth:~ jasoco$ uptime
4:11 up 3 days, 11:48, 2 users, load averages: 0.05 0.23 0.30


I don't really care about uptime. I don't get the point. I prefer shutting down or restarting once in a while to get back my ram and fresh starting. When I'm not shutting down though I just dim the screen to 0 and leave it on. Especially if I'm downloading or ripping or something.

[Christopera]

9 days and 20 hours.

I restarted on the last update.

[stugots]

26 days 9 hours before I rebooted for an update. It amazed me that my MacBook was just as fast and stable as it was 26 days prior. Try that Windows!