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

[Richard Pieri]

What Jack said about applications.  Even though an application doesn't leak memory it can still suffer from memory fragmentation which will eventually degrade performance.  File servers, on the other hand, generally don't care.  Quarterly may be overkill, or it may be woefully inadequate.  It depends on what the server is doing.

--Rich P.