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

[Kevin Stevens]

>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

I've had many NT 4.0 servers up for many months on end before being taken 
down for hardware or other unrelated maintenance.  While it's true that NT 
needs to be rebooted much more often while installing new software, as far 
as uptime is concerned I find it much like xNIX, as long as the applications 
don't leak you're ok.  FWIW I view the xNIX "don't have to reboot to 
install" advantage pretty minimal - I don't trust a new application install 
to come up correctly after a cold restart until it's been tested anyway...

KeS
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