How Often Do You Have To REBOOT Your Computer?

[arwalden]

Poll question: How Often Do You Have To REBOOT Your Computer?

Don't include the initial power-on as a reboot. I'm talking about RE-starting because of a system failure, or memory leak, or program crash.

[rooboy]

1. I said weekly on Windows...

but I can actually go for a number of weeks without requiring a reboot. Took a while to get it tweaked the way I want, though...

[ET Awful]

14. Same here . . .

I can normally go a month or more in Windows without rebooting.

Of course, I built the machine myself and know ever piece of hardware and software that was installed fairly well, and I'm very cautious about what happens with it, doing regular scans for spyware, etc.

So, it's a VERY stable system.

[Robb]

2. You're missing one:

"Mac - Every six months or so".....

Actually, I can't remember the last time I had to reboot this sucker for a memory leak, system failure, or crash. I'm guessing it was around six months ago (and I'm pretty sure I was fighting massive popups when it happened).... :)

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. I am with Robb on this one...

I reboot for memory every few months, and I run both classic apps and OS X apps constantly so I essentially have two operating systems running all the time. My mac is my home machine.

My Windows 2000 machine, my work machine, needs a reboot for memory every 6-12 hours.

[arwalden]

6. You.... you.... SHOW OFF!

:-)

[ikojo]

3. Oh if you meant restarting because of system failure

then I have NEVER had to do that on my much beloved Mac.

Now on my winBLOWS machine...I had to do that almost daily...sometimes hourly especially if I tried to run more than one application at a time (I have a 1Ghz 384 RAM laptop)

Life is simpler on a Mac.

[Tikki]

7. Also, a MAC user....

.....almost never....

Love my MAC....

[Another Bill C.]

5. Windows

I'm running Windows 2K. I can't remember when it crashed last but it was probably months ago. Sometimes it slows down, though, when I have too many graphics programs running at once so I reboot every few days to clear things out.

[ret5hd]

8. Linux Kernel 2.4.18-3 (i know, its old)...

uptime 37.946 days

this box in my office serves 16 windows boxes (http, ftp, mail, nntp). It is also used as my desktop unit, but i do have a seperate box for surfing the web (there is no firewall as good as a snipped wire).

The only reason i re-booted (over a month ago) was that i was lazy and didn't feel like manually killing a hung process.

[Chef]

9. Reboot

ctrl, alt, del keys are wearing out from frequent use.

[jayfish]

10. Windows 98SE, 2K, XP

Rarely for the reasons mentioned here. I have been rebooting quite a bit lately for OS patch installs though. I must also say that I have defended MS during all the OS patching that has taken place but the MSOffice patching process in inexcusable. It is a nightmare.

Jay

[Kamika]

11. windows xp and weekly

Its a great system provided you have a ram freeing program.

I have a free program named ram booster it shows howmuch Ram is free and whenever stuff starts to get slow i just free it all up again.

Windows doesnt seem to be able to do this

[German-Lefty]

12. You moved the mouse please restart computer for changes to take effect.

Runs pretty stable buit it's annoying having to reboot everything all the time to get what you need installed. That's the nice thing about a good linux distribution: you get all your packages downloaded together and installed with no BS.

[sendero]

13. I use XP...

.. I don't have to reboot often due to lockups or instability - my problem is I run a lot of apps and some (like Photoshop) use a lot of memory. And unlike *nix, XP is not smart enough to return all memory used by an application back to the global heap, so memory usage just goes up and up - and the only way to reclaim all of the "not really used but stupid Windows thinks is used" ram is to reboot.

Back in the early 90s, I had an Interactive Unix box that ran over a year without a reboot. And I've had Linux run for several months without a reboot.

Someday, Windows will be able to do that. Not!

[SiouxJ]

15. Two computers - two different stories

I sort of screwed up your poll, sorry. I read the instructions after I voted. If you don't count the initial power-on I never have to reboot my Windows computer. My one at home that is, which is a top of the line Gateway that I got about a year and a half ago. It has only crashed once in all that time. It runs XP and I just don't have problems with it at all.

Then again, I do have to reboot my older PC at work at least once a day so I guess I didn't really screw it up :-) .