Monthly Reboots Needed of not?

Allen K. Smith lazlor at bigboy.lotaris.org
Wed Apr 5 14:31:03 UTC 2006


We end up rebooting most of our EL3 boxes every quarter or six months to apply errata kernels. Unless you are seeing issues or have a specific need, there is no reason to reboot. 

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 05:39, 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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