[Malvern] Memory Reliability

[Angus Clarke]

The only time I ever power cycle Linux boxes is for hardware maintenance 
(CPU/memory replacement/upgrade etc.)
Or for the occasional site move (quite rare!)
Reboots are less frequent than that!

The M$ admins I have worked with before now, usually reboot their 
servers (or perhaps recycle their services) on some scheduled basis 
(weekly or daily in some cases) Its not uncommon to hear the phrase "IIS 
reset required." This is apparently to address software degradation of 
service before it becomes noticeably bad to the business. I presume they 
power cycle for hardware maintenance too ...

Regards
/A

Keith Edmunds wrote:
> 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
>
>