Ask HN: How often do you restart your computer? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How often do you restart your computer?

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Post by cookiengineer » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 12:27 PM UTC

johannesrexx wrote: post #31

My Linux machines sleep when not in use and get a reboot when there's a kernel update, so about every one to two weeks. My Mac Mini also sleeps when not in use and only gets a reboot when there's a macOS update, which are typically months apart. My Raspberry Pi runs Pi-hole and it gets booted every few months. Everything is on a UPS so there's never a reboot due to power failure.

Can relate to Linux machines. That moment when you think USB is broken and realize "oops didn't reboot after kernel update"...

Re: Ask HN: How often do you restart your computer?

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Post by KomoD » Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:36 PM UTC

Laptop? When I'm done using it.

Desktop? Not very often.

> up 8 weeks, 2 days, 18 hours, 9 minutes

I do put it into sleep sometimes.

Re: Ask HN: How often do you restart your computer?

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Post by TowerTall » Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 2:11 AM UTC

windows user. Very infrequent like every other month. With a few exception, I only reboot when Windows Update requires it

Re: Ask HN: How often do you restart your computer?

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Post by in9 » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 3:20 PM UTC

gnicholas wrote: post #23

in9 wrote: post #22

Every week or so. I have a feeling stuff starts to run smoother. And I also tell macos to not recover the windows. I like a fresh start.

What do you think the reason is? I had hypothesized that it was because I keep tons of tabs open, and over time more of them are made active (they are in a quasi-hibernated state when I first reopen Brave). But if that is true, then quitting and restarting Brave would have the same effect — which it doesn't seem to.

Honestly, memory leaks are common in software, so I really don't buy it when people say they don't need to do it. Unless it is a server where the memory footprint is arguably simpler due to not having graphics + UI + different interfaces and peripherals, I can't convince myself that a reboot won't freshen things up.