[geeks] Speaking of Bad practice in the Win/X86 world

[Brian Dunbar]

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From: James [mailto:james at jdfogg.com]
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 10:21 AM
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Subject: RE: [geeks] Speaking of Bad practice in the Win/X86 world

> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Andrew Weiss
>
> "Reboot Schedule
> Periodic server reboots can be scheduled using the Reboot Schedule tab
> for each server.  It is a good practice to reboot servers on a regular
> basis.  The reason for this is that applications housed on the server
> can cause memory leaks that tie up valuable resources on your servers.

This is the first time I've seen this in print. Seen it a lot in practice.
Is this true of win2k also? Or is this just an NT thing?


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Depends (heh).  All of the Windows boxes I manage are W2K.  Some are are
restarted monthly (more or less) as we install this or tweak that.  The
uptime champ here (quick browse) is 137 days.  That's an Oracle Server, but
it's not really a 'production' box, so she's not doing much.

~brian