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

[Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk]

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CAdams at Starbase.com wrote:
>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?

Not now (well almost). There's an urban myth that Solaris <= v2.4 had unsolved 
memory
leakage problems, (but I remember seeing the patch for that problem way back). 
Only
reason yours truly could see for rebooting regularly is if your apps leak 
memory - in which
case that's a bug surely that should be fixed.

Scheduled periods of 'quiet' to allow admin are a real good idea, but unless 
you intend installing
patches this shouldn't require a reboot.

just my 2c's worth...

Bob Cross.


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