Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?

[Dan Ritter]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:52:12PM -0400, La Ferla Robert wrote:
> Question for all the system admins out there:
> 
> What is your policy regarding rebooting production servers?  Upgrades/updates and emergencies aside, do you reboot them on say an annual scheduled basis?  If so, how often?  Or do you never or rarely (every 3 yrs or so)  reboot?


Three years is pretty close to replacement schedule for my productions
servers. During that time, I will have typically rebooted them four times
or so -- three times for annual general maintenance day, on which we re-do
cabling, move machines if it makes sense, and otherwise do potentially
dangerous things.

-dsr-

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