Does your computer ever sleep?

[DomainBop]

Sleep, suspend, hibernate, off button...never heard of them.

I recently retired one of my company workstations that had been awake almost non-stop for 16 years (blackout in 2003 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012 were the only times it was off).  Hewlett-Packard Kayak XW, dual Pentium II 450 Mhz, 256MB RAM, 2 x Cheetah 10K SCSI drives.  RIP.

The two computers I do most of my work on never go to sleep: a Dell Optiplex 780, Core2Quad Q9400 w/8GB RAM (picked it up off lease for $100) and my remote (via x2go) desktop: an E3-1246v3 w/32GB RAM (provides remote Debian desktops via x2go for several people in my company).

 

[Coastercraze]

Nope, they get shut down when not in use.

 

[splitice]

My primary machine is a Laptop, although it chews a fair bit of power (for a laptop) when under heavy use (140-90W+) its extremely efficient with the screen off mostly idling <10-15W. It never sleeps, except when in transport.

 

[zomgmike]

I sleep everything.  Anywhere from 15 minutes to 3 hours after I'm idle, it'll sleep.  I shut down only for critical updates.

The laptop sleeps fine for weeks at a time.  I like that when I open it up, even a week later, the screen goes on and I'm right at the desktop instantly.

Laptop: sleeps after 3 hours when plugged in, 15 minutes when unplugged

Desktops: sleep after 3 hours, monitors off after 30 minutes.

 

[souen]

Desktop sleeps, Pi server stays up.

 

[RaidLogic.NET]

No sleep 24/7 on, only laptop goes off.