-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:42:48 -0500 From: David Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: DGSSoftware To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <000d01c1a94f$d7cad7b0$fd00a8c0@pavilion> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One of my servers uptime is 8 months, why reboot? Thats very Windoze! Dave. On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:52:34 -0800 Ed Kasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, I have one RedHat 6 server only machine that runs mostly as a pop and > web server that only gets rebooted when we clean it every 6 months or > so.... Of course I monitor the memory and disk usage on a regular > basis. But the wonderful thing about the os is that it has none of those > inherent memory leaks that seems to continue to plague Microsoft products...... > > Ed > > > At 09:34 PM Tuesday, 1/29/2002, Jesse Angell wrote -=> > >I run a linux server, that hosts multiple chat servers. I used to do this > >on Windows 2000 and required a reboot at least once a week. I am curious > >now that I've switched to Mandrake Linux 8.1 how often should I reboot to > >clear things out to avoid unwanted down times, here is my uptime information > >10:30pm up 12 days, 2:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > >If I know how often It needs to rebooted I could setup a script to do it > >and tell my customers that its down every blah blah time for a blah blah > >amount of time... ?? Any ideas? > > Ed Kasky > Los Angeles, CA > . . . . . . . . > "When you reach the crossroads, take it." - Yogi Berra > > > LOL! A script to reboot? You might want to restart the chat server say once every two weeks, but reboot the system? I wrapped the "time since reboot" counter around on one machine--like 437 days up. One process was killed when the counter wrapped and had to be restarted from console, but I think several have passed this time with no problem. Underneath all the glitz and glamor, the base system is _stable_. You may freeze a desktop with bugs in a WM, but you can almost always dive out to a console and fix things, or SSH in if your keyboard is whacked. Reboot is considered a vulgar word in these environs. If you are swtiching video cards, it _Will_ be necessary to reboot, and probably use your install CD in update mode, and it you are changing processors or Mobos, a power-down/reboot is unavoidable, but you can actually change BIOS EPROMs without rebooting though the benefits will not be realized until you do the R-thing. Civileme
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