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.
My laptops live until a battery dies on the train (-:
Seriously though, no good reason to bounce a Linux box unless a)
horrible app b) kernel mishap c) kernel upgrade.
That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if
left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills.
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