Re: Shutdown vs Sleep

[Damacus <damacus@bastion.yi.org>]

I default to the same.  Heat cycling is a bad thing.  I'm sure you can 
find general engineering research to back this up.  Also, as for power 
concerns..  you should have several things set up.. the monitors should 
be put to sleep (or turned off for old monitors that don't do APM) and 
on some systems, letting the HDDs go to sleep is a decent thing.

FWIW, my primary linux box is on 24/7 minus those occasional CWLP 
instabilities.  It has run without fail for over 6 years and is still 
going.  I think that is sufficient life for an office system.

Mike

> Its usually turning them on and off, heating and cooling the boards that
> is hard on the computer, not leaving them on.  Leaving them off would
> save some electricity.  But in the big picture of things,  the VP's are
> probably spending more by making more work to maintain things than he'd
> spend on part failures.  But I don't have firm proof.

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