"Just reboot" is a bad attitude. If there is a memory leek, the fact that a reboot will free the leaked memory is not a good reason to not fix the memory leek.
That kind of attitude is why windows does need regular reboots. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:00 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.0.9 long term stability <--threadhijack, why not reboot? Yes.. because if a reboot is needed it isn't setup correctly. Reboots are a windows things. A correctly setup Linux server should never need rebooted. On 9/14/05, Colin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Disclaimer: Not a troll > > I'm curious as to this obsession with uptime is. All of the posts of this > type are along the lines of "After X days, Y thing does not work but if I > reload or reboot, it's OK" - so why not cron a reboot? Is it considered bad > form or something like that? I reboot every night whether it is needed or > not, not afraid to admit it, and everything works fine for me. > > We also do the "Sunday reboot" of all of our Windows servers as well as > restarting all of the critical services such as IIS , SQL, Exchange etc > nightly. It helps, a lot (Exchange is a notorious memory leaker) > > Of course, if your install processes calls 24/7 that's a different story. > However, I expect that the majority of Asterisk installs are for a 9-to-5 > type of operation. We run two shifts here, and we stop processing calls at > 10 PM, and start again at about 6 AM - a large window of opportunity to > reboot. Why not take advantage of it? > > I've also heard it said, something along the lines of: "If you have to > reboot, your server isn't set up correctly" to which I say piffle. Even NASA > has rebooted the Mars probes after they land and I understand that they run > VXWorks, incidentally, the same RTOS that my Mitel 3300 uses, and *even > Mitel* recommends periodic reboots, which we duly cron every night, 2 AM. > > 24/7/365 installs aside, is there a reason why reboots seem to be frowned > upon? Again, not trolling, just curious. > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
