Post a screenshot of your longest running Linux desktop or server. Tell us what it is and why it’s been up that long.
Hopefully this also servers as a reminder for us on a Linux box or VM that probably should have been updated and rebooted a while ago.
690, is long but I’ve seen much longer. It’s rarely a number to be proud of, but often a good sign of the underlying distro’s stability if in active use.
This screenshot is from a sandbox server used by several devs or staging/testing a web app. It’s rsync’d nightly. Really not updated often because it’s largely locked down from the web.
AlmaLinux I find to be a good fit for this due to their long EOL (May 31, 2029), stability, and version 8 means very few pending updates after long periods of uptime.
Edit: When the uptime is long and there’s some opportunistic swap usage, sometimes it’s nice to see what’s stored in swap:
servers are rebooted every 7 days.
Pavlos, only because I haven’t studied this, is there a need for periodic reboot to defragment the memory, or is that a critical piece of logic which already takes place within the Kernel?
