Re: How often do you reboot servers?

On 7/1/2011 4:08 AM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:

Normally the software updates occasionally need to update a essential
component, requiring a reboot to do so. This frequency seems
reasonable to me for non-essential production. A year seems quite
long - what distribution are you running?

Heh ... this is Fedora 10 ... quite out of date. Hasn't gotten an update in a few years.

My plan is to move it to a xen hosted CentOS instance sometime this year. This particular server is the most complex (the other server has already been migrated).

The fsck is not necessarily required, but is most likely triggered
because the mount command has been configured (usually by the vendor)
to invoke a full fsck regularily. Modern journalling file systems
do not require this, so it is just to play safe.

The defaults were probably use when the ext3 file system was created. I _may_ have tweaked them a little, but not much.

david