Monthly Reboots Needed of not?

[Harry Hoffman]

If there's no reason to reboot (i.e. no kernel upgrade or mem-leaking
apps) then don't :-)

You may want to keep the scheduled downtime in place in case you need to
do need to reboot. Users tend to like predictable events.

Cheers,
Harry


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Harry Hoffman
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Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com wrote:
> 
> We currently run 40 Redhat ES/WS version 3 machines and we have been
> advised that it would be good practice to reboot the linux machines once a
> month. While i have my reservations about this, i wanted to know what other
> people thought about this and also if anybody actually does this already.
> 
> Let me know your thoughts
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrew Bridgeman
> 
> 
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