What was your LONGEST SESSION on Computer ?

[Jen Smith]

For me probably would be back in my VAX/VMS days before I started working for myself, usually ~2 day stretches occasionally, with a few breaks of course. Nowadays if I tried that I'd either need a week to recuperate or an awful lot of narcotics to pull that off.

[Starbuck84]

Longest time in front of my screen? Maybe 5 ~ 6 hours straight. Couple of years back, when one night I was playing Guild Wars I met this amazing group which just kept on going mission through mission. I was invited and kept playing until I could no more.

Longest time my PC stayed on? 4 days in a row. During school I had to create a 3D model which needed to be animated. And seeing I'm a sucker (or loser) for details, I went nuts during rendering. Although I optimized most of it, it still needed to render 4 days straight for a 1 minute animation.

[deactivated_]

Longest time without longer than a 5 minute break? Quite a few 2 or 3 day stretches back when I was working on a project for Panasonic.

Longest time without shutting down or even restarting the computer? 5 months, 4 days, 16 hours. (It was back in the Windows 2000 days when you could get away with such things.)

[Kami-]

I've done 136 hours awake on the PC at a LAN event (excluding shower, food & toilet breaks); longest it's been on (whilst not fully attended) is something along the lines of 430 days -.-

[DKAngel]

i dont shut my pc down, it reboots for patches and thats it or in turn of a power failure, 2days is the longest ive been on my pc at lans playing games and ****

[Ryoken]

Back in the Windows 95 days I often left my computer on to the system hard limit.. I forget the exact number, 20 some days before it would crash itself..

In more modern times I leave my desktop on till I decide to install Windows updates.. generally 1-4 months at a time.

My Windows fileserver only gets rebooted when there's a power outage. So it's 4months+ between them.

[FireTalon]

[niccos@mortalkomb ~]$ uptime

10:11AM up 622 days, 10:24, 1 user, load averages: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00

[niccos@mortalkomb ~]$

[MtnDewCodeRedFreak]

  On 17/07/2011 at 14:04, Ryoken said:

Back in the Windows 95 days I often left my computer on to the system hard limit.. I forget the exact number, 20 some days before it would crash itself..

In more modern times I leave my desktop on till I decide to install Windows updates.. generally 1-4 months at a time.

My Windows fileserver only gets rebooted when there's a power outage. So it's 4months+ between them.

Yeah because 9x OSes would crash if left on for 49-something days - equivalent to 2^32 milliseconds.

Edit: found it - on Wikipedia: "A memory overflow issue was resolved [in Windows 98 SE] which in the older version of Windows 98 would crash most systems if left running for 49.7 days (equal to 2?? milliseconds).^"

And, ahh aside from bathroom breaks, eating, and stretching, probably 5 days, lol.

Zonked out on the bed for 18 hours.

[Detection]

Months and months minus the odd restart / reinstall

Before I got prepay electric meters, now it gets shut down even if I am going to the shop, damn TX950W

[Allan]

went to a college comp lab with three friends (we weren't students, but got let in by other students) in Fri at 5pm, left Monday at 5am. Each of us split food costs. Never again will I do 54 hrs with no sleep.

I have left my Asus on for 6 weeks. While I downloaded Stargate SG1 season 1-10 ... all 60gb of it.

[Glen]

The longest time actively spent in front of the computer would be about 20 hours to finish up a project. In some cases, several of these long sessions were needed to make a deadline, but that's not all that uncommon for "crunch time" in the development community.

The longest session where the computer was actually doing something without my intervention is probably like 24 hours or so to do a long overnight download, but that was when I was still on dial-up so even moderate sized files took a while. Now, the longest downloads (MSDN disks, linux disks etc.) usually take less than an hour.

[Amarok]

Probably about 16~ hours back when I played Diablo 2.

I never bothered to track how long I've left my PC on unattended. I almost never turn it off though.

[Hendrick]

I never shut my desktop off unless it's a reboot for either an install or something similar. Currently it's at 9 days, and I only rebooted it then because the TV tuner wasn't being recognized. I stream live television a lot using my tuner when I'm away, so I always try to leave it up and running.

[n_K]

Longest time at a PC, probably about 20 hours whilst in uni.

Longest PC uptime, let me just remote in and check...

'net statistics server

Server Statistics for \\<snip>

Statistics since 08/06/2011 16:49'

So erm, 39 days right now, longest was my original red hat box, longest uptime was 3 months or so.

[PNWDweller]

  On 17/07/2011 at 11:05, aludanyi said:

34 hours, back in the '80-es, when I wrote a video game for an 8-bit Atari 800XL ;) from start-to-finish without taking any break, only eating a few slices of pizza, drinking some Coke and visiting the bathroom for a few minutes.

Good old days, I felt like Bill Gates and Paul Allen writing the BASIC for the Altair :) ? but then again I was about 10 or maybe 12 at the time? ;)

You mean copying the code from the 20 or so pages in the back of the Antic Magazine? Oh wait...that was me! :)

I have gone about 12 hours at a time when working on a web project or something that really keeps me occupied and demands my creative energy. I just rebooted all my hardware (modem, router, voip phone, iMac etc) yesterday when we had to bug bomb the house due to a massive infestation of fleas that made my cats ill. For that, we had to turn power off for a few hours. That last time all my stuff was off for that long was a few weeks ago when the neighborhood power transformer blew up outside our apartment complex. We were down for about 10 hours that night. Otherwise, most things stay on 24/7 PC/Internet wise.

[DanielZ]

Longest session with me at the computer? Probably three or four days with no sleep. Bathroom breaks didn't interrupt me because I have a laptop, so I'd bring it with me to the bathroom. Same goes for the kitchen for food. I think it was when I was extremely productive one day, I didn't want to go to sleep and end my streak of productivity, so I just decided to keep going until I was unable to do anymore. By the fourth day I was making so many typos and making up my own CSS values (ex: pretty colors: yes; underline: no;), so I went to sleep. Longest time that my MacBook Pro's been running without a restart? Last year, I rebooted it once for an update or something in May, and I didn't restart until September or October, and that was simply to install some driver that required a restart.

[Lingwo]

Done a few weekend LANs which were 24 hours. Recent memory though was crunch time on some work. Ended from about 10:30am to 3am. No food breaks just the odd toilet break. Never again. The crunch wasn't my fault either but i was the one who had to sort it.

[+Warwagon MVC]

My main machine, Media center and server hasn't actually been "Shutdown" other than to do maintenance on them. . they also doesn't get restarted unless i'm doing updates. I keep my main pc on so when customers call me in the morning i can run down stairs turn on my monitor and be ready to go.

[aludanyi]

  On 17/07/2011 at 17:39, Medfordite said:

You mean copying the code from the 20 or so pages in the back of the Antic Magazine? Oh wait...that was me! :)

I have gone about 12 hours at a time when working on a web project or something that really keeps me occupied and demands my creative energy. I just rebooted all my hardware (modem, router, voip phone, iMac etc) yesterday when we had to bug bomb the house due to a massive infestation of fleas that made my cats ill. For that, we had to turn power off for a few hours. That last time all my stuff was off for that long was a few weeks ago when the neighborhood power transformer blew up outside our apartment complex. We were down for about 10 hours that night. Otherwise, most things stay on 24/7 PC/Internet wise.

No, it was created by me, no copying, it was a remake of Fungaloids (the very first game I ever played on my first computer - ZX81). Not a very complex game for sure, but as I said, I was like 10 or maybe 12 at the time.

[Ryoken]

  On 17/07/2011 at 14:23, MtnDewCodeRedFreak said:

Yeah because 9x OSes would crash if left on for 49-something days - equivalent to 2^32 milliseconds.

Edit: found it - on Wikipedia: "A memory overflow issue was resolved [in Windows 98 SE] which in the older version of Windows 98 would crash most systems if left running for 49.7 days (equal to 2?? milliseconds).^"

49.7 Days.. don't know where I got the 20something from lol. But ya, I hit that a few times before I found out what it was lol.

[Growled Member]

My longest session was around 16 hours, with a few bathroom breaks thrown in. I was working on a project at work and wanted to finish it while the creative juices were flowing.