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Do you guys turn off your DC rigs?

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Smartazz

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I've been running my main system 24 hours a day for the past 9 days straight. I run World Community Grid on the 4 CPU cores, Bitcoin mine on the 6870 and fold on an 8800GTS. Is there any point in restarting it? Do you guys restart your DC rigs?

Edit: The title should have been "Do you guys restart your DC rigs?"
 
My machine never gets turned off, unless there are environmental issues (AC dying, etc). And I only restart my machine when I need to. I do turn off crunching apps when I'm doing something that requires more CPU processing though. I do have a few crunch only machines, and they never do anything else.
 
So far my policy has been to disable the CPU clients when I'm doing CPU intensive work on my rig. I haven't gamed in weeks so my 6870 has been mining 24/7 covering the DC costs. The 8800GTS runs 24/7 folding. I'm quite proud of the setup I have going. It generates the heat I need for my room and I get some nice DC work done.
 
both of my computers at home crunch 24/7, as does my work computer. none of them are ever off except during thunderstorms, and i only restart them when its necessary, which pretty much consists of system freezes...and they only happen once in a blue moon anyways, so i hardly have to restart them.
 
The only reason that I've had to restart my rig lately, has been when using my external backup HD. For some reason, I cannot cleanly eject it after running the backup program. So I have to restart.

Other than that, crunch on!
 
My 2 x4s and 1 x6 are on 24/7. 1 x3 on most of the time (it's a neighbor's rig.)

I occasionally reboot for system upgrades.
 
All comps run 24/7. In 2011 the downtime for my comps was in average 68 minutes.
All the time was for maintenence - updating, upgrading, un-dusting, etc.
The one and only exception: the HTPC in the bedroom ... I just love to sleep in silence.
 
petrusbroder said:
All comps run 24/7. In 2011 the downtime for my comps was in average 68 minutes.
All the time was for maintenence - updating, upgrading, un-dusting, etc.
The one and only exception: the HTPC in the bedroom ... I just love to sleep in silence.
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That's impressive. if my math is correct, that's a downtime of just .000002%!
 
petrusbroder said:
All comps run 24/7. In 2011 the downtime for my comps was in average 68 minutes.
All the time was for maintenence - updating, upgrading, un-dusting, etc.
The one and only exception: the HTPC in the bedroom ... I just love to sleep in silence.
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Smartazz said:
That's impressive. if my math is correct, that's a downtime of just .000002%!
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Talk about having 99.999998% uptime. I think you've successfully beat most companies with five 9's uptime rates (those 99.999% uptime claims).
 
Rudy Toody said:
If someone invented a fan that sounds like a babbling brook that could lull you to sleep, you could eliminate the computer down time during your down time.
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Funny enough, I turn up the fans on my system to help me sleep. I'd much prefer the sound of fans over my neighbors or street noise.
 
Smartazz said:
That's impressive. if my math is correct, that's a downtime of just .000002%!
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Your math is not correct:
one calender year has 525 600 minutes (365 days *24 hours *60 minutes = 525 600)
1% of that is 5 256 minutes
0.01% is 52.56 minutes.
68 minutes is 0.012938%

Thus the uptime is 99.987062%. Good enough, but not record breaking

somethingsketchy said:
Talk about having 99.999998% uptime. I think you've successfully beat most companies with five 9's uptime rates (those 99.999% uptime claims).
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Your assumption is based on a wrong calculation. 99.999% uptime would mean a 5,256 minutes downtime (525 600 minutes = 100%, 0,001% = 5,256 minutes)

Well, I do maintenance, buy good stuff, and have spare parts at home.
I also have trained two of the kids to maintain and service the computers.
Three persons being able to service or repair 26 computers - if a company could do that then they too would have such a low down time.
OTOH: it is fun to keep it running.
 
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I do not turn off or reboot unless necessary. (upgrades, repairs, cleaning, software updates).

In summer some machines do go offline and others get moved to night crunching schedule only.
 
petrusbroder said:
Your math is not correct:
one calender year has 525 600 minutes (365 days *24 hours *60 minutes = 525 600)
1% of that is 5 256 minutes
0.01% is 52.56 minutes.
68 minutes is 0.012938%

Thus the uptime is 99.987062%. Good enough, but not record breaking



Your assumption is based on a wrong calculation. 99.999% uptime would mean a 5,256 minutes downtime (525 600 minutes = 100%, 0,001% = 5,256 minutes)

Well, I do maintenance, buy good stuff, and have spare parts at home.
I also have trained two of the kids to maintain and service the computers.
Three persons being able to service or repair 26 computers - if a company could do that then they too would have such a low down time.
OTOH: it is fun to keep it running.
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My mistake, I was half asleep when I did that math.
 
Only reboot my main rig for windows updates, dusting out oh & lately IE seems to get really laggy sometimes without a reboot 😕
 
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