John Hinton wrote:
Drew Weaver wrote:
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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Johnny Hughes
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 6:30 AM
To: CentOS ML
Subject: Re: reboot long uptimes?
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 12:06 +0100, D Ivago wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering if I should reboot some servers that are running
over 180 days?
They are still stable and have no problems, also top shows no zombie
processes or such, but maybe it's better for the hardware (like ext3
disk checks f.e.) to reboot every six months...
About the only other reason I can think of is just to make sure it will
restart when an emergency arises.
For instance, fans, drives, etc.....
Some servers will balk if a fan doesn't run. Some servers balk if a hard
drive isn't up to speed. These types of things only show up during a
reboot. In the case of scsi raids, hot swap drives... if a drive goes
bad some equipment will require some action for the boot up to
continue.. some don't.
How may spares do you carry?
If you want to do scheduled hardware mainennance that's one thing. Doing
hardware mainennance because something broke during software maintenance
is something entirely different.
If I schedule a reboot at 18:00 when hardly anyone's around, and the
system fails because the hardware's suddenly broken, we're in trouble.
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Cheers
John
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