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3:15 am reboot of UNIX, what is it?

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golgoth4prez

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Mar 26, 2009
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I was reading through a mac magazine in a book store today and there was a mention of leaving your computer on until 3:15 am because that is what UNIX does for a self reboot or something like that. since old unix computers used to be on 24 hours a day.

I am probably completely wrong and my memory is ill serving me, so I am curious about what it really is, what I should do, if I should do anything.

On the chance what I am thinking is right and that since I am not usually up at 3:15 am, I could just change my clock at 3pm and then let it do what it needs to do.

I have onyx, I am noticing a small decline in my system speed after a few months and want to try something.
 
flopticalcube said:
OSX does a little housekeeping in the wee hours, no reboots. If you sleep your Mac at that time, the housekeeping will be done when it awakes.
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really i was under the impression that you hade to keep it awake to run the scripes.

but if i put my MBP to sleep at night, it will run the scrips when it wakes?
any confirmation for this?
 
Thanks. I appreciate the information. Especially since i had the nomenclature completely off.
 
I leave mine running at night, so that Time Machine and other maintenance tasks run when they're supposed to, and so that my daily Carbon Copy Cloner clone runs at 12:00 AM and NOT when my computer wakes up.

That said, if you don't have an important scheduled task that needs to run overnight, I recommend sleeping the machine, for the simple reason that doing so saves power.
 
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