[Malvern] Memory Reliability

[Keith Edmunds]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:53:29 +0100, ianpascoe at btinternet.com said:

> when you speak to any SysAdmins they generally recommend
> re-booting both MS and Linux servers on a regular basis to clear them out
> and and therefore making them run better....

"any sysadmins"? NO Linux sysadmin that I know of (and I know a few)
advocates this for Linux.

Do the people you are referring to have any kind of evidence, or do they
believe it is "just a good thing" to reboot Linux servers?

Keith

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Keith Edmunds

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