As a matter of maintenance, we reboot all of our systems every 5 weeks. While I don't know how many problems that we have avoided, I am firmly convinced that it saves significant unplanned down time. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Horne > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 11:13 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: Monthly Reboots Needed of not? > > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 13:39 +0100, Andrew.Bridgeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > > > We currently run 40 Redhat ES/WS version 3 machines and we have been > > advised that it would be good practice to reboot the linux > machines once a > > month. While i have my reservations about this, i wanted to > know what other > > people thought about this and also if anybody actually does > this already. > > > I think the question for the list is why have you been > advised this? Why > do 'they' think that reboots are required? > > > > John. > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 > E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
