farmer1

Whats the longest you PC has been up, so far the longest I have been able to keep on before needing reboot was 16 hours - win xp

I may be wrong but why cant it seem to handle that long without reducing performance? Or grinding to a halt?

djuk

about 9 or 10 days of constant use under windows 2000 professional

XRS

Mine runs for a couple of weeks easily without needing a reboot - XP Pro.

It runs United Devices in the background, so keeps itself occupied and I'm now 7th in the Impreza league table (respect to Mr Footlong)!

lightning101

With 300w PSU - 4 days


With 500w psu - never went off without powerdown manually.

*Sonic*

er, dunno, around 200 days or so, WinXP

my laptop also hasnt been switched off since I got it either sometime last year

farmer1

How do you keep it on so long without it slowing down - I swear my pc slows down after a couple of hours either that or I am imagining things

*Sonic*

dunno, it hasnt slowed down at all, either of them

Miles

My home machine was up for 45 days continuously until it was rebooted last week. Not bad for an Athlon + WinXP combination

darlodge

I turn all mine off everynight as they make the floor rumble

My router how ever has been on for about 4 months.

Darren

Roland_STI

Friend has a linux server than ran non stop for 3 years

greasemonkey

Something in your PC is knackered then.

Either the hardware or some software you're running is defective (memory leak perhaps)? The WinXP PC I'm using now has been running continuously since I rebooted it after installing the MS security fix last Monday.

If you're looking for real longevity, the NT4 and Win2003 servers we use in the office routinely run without rebooting for six months at a stretch. The only times they're stopped is if patches/updates ask for a reboot, or for their half-yearly service.

This sort of performance is nothing exceptional, and if you can only run your own for a few hours before things go pear-shaped, there's something wrong with it.

Mcbrun555

Have you heard of the Netware server that was lost behind a wall?

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012

Mcbrun555

farmer1

Nope haven't I will take a look at that.

Dracoro

Can't remember the last time I reset my work PC, I only ever end up resetting it every few weeks (basically whenever I install something that requires a 'reboot' which is relatively rare these days) or when I clog the PC up somehow, again this hardly ever happens.

Works fine all the time too, rare that it slows down. Running XP professional on a AMD athlon 2400+ (2Ghz) and 480MB RAM.