Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:44:02AM +0000, root wrote:
> this topic is inherently redundant. if the system environment justifies
> staying up, it stays up. if not, staying up is a waste of resources. can
> we close this before the group is reduced to redundancy itself?

*sigh*  You seem to have completely missed the point of Tom's post.
To summarize:

At one time, leaving a machine on overnight consumed less power than
rebooting it (i.e., shutting down and powering back up wasted more
resources than just leaving it on).  Is that still the case?

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