Re: Weekly reboots of Solaris servers? Insane or not?

From: Colin B. (cbigam_at_somewhereelse.nucleus.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:39:24 GMT

WAS Admin <wasadmin@optonline.net> wrote:
> My company uses a number of Solaris 8 servers. These servers are
> running Oracle, WebSphere, iPlanet, etc... They are scheduled to
> reboot every Sunday morning (no, I don't know why. Probably to cover
> up memory leaks).
>
> My question is this: How often does your company reboot their Solaris
> servers? Or are they only reboot if a problem occurs or for
> maintenance reasons? If your servers are reboot often, can you
> explain why?

Our servers stay up until they crash, require a scheduled outage, or
get retired. :-)
Typically with patches, maintenance, etc., I figure our machines average
an uptime of about 100 days. Rebooting weekly is a little bit beyond
insane, in my eyes. Maybe if they were running Solaris 2.5.1 or earlier
I could see a regular reboot cycle, but nowhere near that frequent!

Colin

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