server uptime

[dan]

Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:23:14PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
>   
>>   And let's not forget that Linux isn't immune to restart-the-world
>> issues, either.  For example, on a Linux server, if you update glibc
>> to patch a security bug, you pretty much need to restart *everything*.
>>     
>
> sometimes it's good to reboot a system just to make sure you can.
> i.e., that you haven't introduced deadlocks or dependencies or
> gremlins or changed some externality that the boot process depends
> on or that some flash memory hasn't rotted or ...
>   
fsck, clean out the dust bunnies, dead mice (we actually did find 
those), make sure the fans (and hard drives) still turn when it comes 
back on, ...

We reboot our servers every two years, whether they need it or not. :-)

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Dan Jenkins, Rastech Inc.