Monthly Reboots Needed of not?

[Dave]

Andrew, my former employer had clusters of IBM and HP machines all NFS 
cross-mounted, and we found that monthly reboots of these were really 
needed. After maybe 6 weeks things got really strange.

We later added a single Debian linux machine, pretty much the same NFS 
mounts, and I've noted it running a year without needing reboots.

My current environment is a small 40-node Beowulf cluster and several 
other machines: Reboots are pretty much unheard of. RH EL4AS.

My .02..

Dave Felt

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
>