Monthly Reboots Needed of not?

[John O'Loughlin]

Andrew

Don't forget that those machines are either running network services so 
rebooting them will cause a break in that and can lead to issues like 
stale nfs file handles for nfs servers or broken internet connections if 
they are a firewall.
If they are workstations then its probable that they will have a number of 
users logged at any one time doing work and so they will not be best 
pleased.

John


On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Andrew Bacchi wrote:

> My manager would hang me if I did that.  I reboot after six months, but I'm 
> sure I could go one year betewwn reboots.  I see no memory leaks, or loss of 
> effiency on this schedule.
>
> 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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