Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?
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I would say to do a reboot and possible a file system check once a month
to avoid corruption and unintended loss of data. Other then that, you
don't need to reboot.
David R. Litwin wrote:
> I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. I recently
> downloaded two large files via BitTorrent. As I wanted to have them as
> quickly as I could, I decided to leave my laptop on until they were fully
> downloaded, rebooting only for
> upgrades. I noticed no real difference in performance (maybe Azureus
> was hogging a bit more memory after a few days).
>
> The question is this: Why should I ever turn off my laptop on a normal
> occasion (normal being every-day, standard, stationary usage)? If I don't
> want it on, I can suspend it in some way: Waking-up is faster than
> booting-up.
>
> I'm keen to hear your opinions, O members.
>
> Cheers.
>
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Greg Ryman
Network Engineering Supervisor
Candylogic, LLC.
gregr@candylogic.com
949-916-4444 x.203
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