Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:50:06PM -0800, nate wrote:
| DvB said:
|
| > Especially the monitor. I have my monitors power down not only to
| > save energy, but also (at least in the case of my home box, which
| > is in my bedroom) because they generate a substantial amount of
| > heat which, in turn, makes my A/C run more often and increses my
| > power bill (not to mention, using more enegery still :-)
|
| i don't. i dont trust power management on desktops. ive
| come back to too many locked up systems(at least locked up
| as in monitor wont wake up) because of APM. i do turn off
| my monitors when im not using them to reduce heat though.
Yeah, with win98 I _had_ to turn of APM or the machine. It would lock
up if I let it sit idle for 2 hours.
| i tell people at my company to leave their machines on all
| the time. the less power cycling the better. i do
| promote turning off monitors(manually, not APM) though
| for the sole purposes of keeping heat levels down(same
| goes for lighting). i have an ultra 10 that i powered down
| for 30 minutes(the box was about 6 months old). powered it
| backup..never came back..disk was totally dead. wouldn't
| spin at all. and with the near 2 dozen IBM disk drive failures
| ive had in the past 6 months, im even more for never turning
| off the system.
I've never had a problem with screen blanking in linux, but I haven't
gone very deep into apm settings and shutting down disks, etc.
Though with a disk I think it is good to shut it down periodically, or
not at all. As you mention above, if the disk isn't shut down
periodically it can wear to the point that it can't start at all.
-D
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