Re: How often do you reboot servers?

Hi David -

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:16:43 -0500, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I just rebooted my mail server after almost a year of uptime.

As it rebooted, it did a full fsck of the main drive.

I'm looking for opinions ... how often should you reboot a server ...
even if it's just for getting things like fsck to run?

When it hangs, there is a kernel panic, or there is a power failure
that lasts longer than the UPS can handle.

I ran my mail server continously for over three years one time. Even
when they changed the daylight saving time rules there was no need to
reboot.

Ken
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