[Sunhelp] Should I ever reboot a Solaris box if I don't need to?

[Hal Flynn]

Short answer.  No

Long answer.  Hell no.

He's a dba because he couldn't cut being a real SA (offense intended).
rm -rf $USERID is the best recourse of action.

More seriously, no.  It should run fine.  The only time you should
really need to reboot a Sun server is when adding new hardware.

On a side note, I haven't known many NT servers with an uptime of 3-4
months.  Just out of curiousity, anybody else know of any?

Hal

"Adams, Christopher" wrote:

>
>
> I have a E 450 UltraSparc-II with 2 gig of ram and 6 18 gig Segate
> Cheetah drives (non-raid).  This 450 is "only" running an Oracle
> database (8.1.5) and has been running with no problems for 6 months
> straight without being rebooted.  This is a production server and has
> mission critical data on it.  Last weekend our Oracle DBA made a call
> to "reboot" the server because he heard through the grapevine that
> "rebooting" a Solaris server (even if there are no problems or
> configuration changes necessary for this) every 3 to 4 months is a
> good thing and should be done.  My question is, "Is this true? Should
> you reboot a running server that doesn't need to be rebooted for any
> administrative purposes every 3 to 4 months just for good measure?".
> I think he is getting confused with Microsoft (no offense of course)
> NT Server.
>
> Please Fire away with any advice you can give...
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
>
> Christopher A.