Mac System Up Time

MacOS
Written By Craig Pickerill

See when your Mac last rebooted or how long it’s been running for with these two commands.

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To launch terminal on a Mac, press command ⌘ and space, in the pop up window type ‘terminal’

Uptime

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uptime
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Running the command ‘uptime’ will give you the following information:-

  • The Current Time

  • How long the device/system has been running for

  • How many users are currently logged on

  • System load averages*, for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes.

*System load averages, the number of processes that are currently in a runnable state or a process which is uninteruprible. A process which is in a runnable state is currently using CPU power or waiting to use available CPU power.

Last reboot

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Running the command in terminal of ‘last reboot’ will tell when the machine was last rebooted, returning a list of the most recent events.

Craig Pickerill https://www.theapplegeek.co.uk
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