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Julie
My brand new computer that I just got at my office, is CHURNING, and CRUNCHING so loudly. I think I over used it already. It’s probably time for a reboot, as I don’t think it’s been off in the three weeks that I got it out of the box and fired it up. I rarely turn off my computers at home. That’s probably why our electric bill is $500 a month. Do you turn off your computer at night?
reboot, computers, Windows Vista
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
I turn mine off at night and whenever I’m away from home for more than a couple hours. My work computer gets turned off every night.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I never turn off my computer, and reboot it only when it needs to (kernel upgrade…or when I manage to OOM (Out Of Memory error on linux) it dead).
The thing is…it mostly depends on what OS and programs you use…if it’s a well-behaved OS with well behaved programs, you shouldn’t need to reboot…when your puter starts churning out badly it’s because either you (often my case), a program (old firefox used to have a really ugly memory leak that’d kill you in a week) or your OS (linux had a very ugly memory leak back in the 2.6.1 days when Morton and Cox were playing around with the memory scheduler, it’d die of OOM in a couple of days) misbehaved.
Before rebooting, I’d kill all my apps, one by one, until I found out which one is being dumb, in case it’s an app. If you kill them all and the OS is still churning around, it’s either the OS being dumb or an app that destabilized the OS…and then it’s time to reboot.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:27 am
There is a good chance that the net time I reboot I will need new moniter. The starter has died/is almost dead for the backlight.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Well, I computer is Online 20 hours a day, and at Night too.. BUT Dont FORGET to turn off the Monitor, thats why you are getting that much bill. Turn off the Monitor only when not needed and see..
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 am
Had the same problem with my office computers. What I did was set it to go into hibernation at 10.30 p.m. using a program called ’shutter’, and set it to wake up using the Win XP task scheduler, at 8.30 a.m., just before I come in, so the computers were up and ready to go when the staff come in at 9.00 a.m. Works like a charm, nobody loses any data and the computers don’t wear out.
January 16th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Hi Friend,
First of all i just want to tell u that it is very necessary to shut down your computer, it consumes so much energy thats why u have bill amount $500. I think u have heard about green technology..it means “save energy”. So please take care of it. There is no problem in rebooting. You can reboot your system.
Regards