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

[Steve Pribyl]

To add to my previously posted answer.

The keep work here is it should run fine.  Hell, I have done it. 
You can let a server run for years with out much trouble, but you WILL
have problems when try to reboot it.  Hardware fails and people change
configurations, it is better to look for problems the to be supprised.

I like to have regularly scheduled windows where I can work on the box.
The reboot helps enforce those windows.  It also resets the server to a
clean state and makes sure that the os and hardware is still good.

BTW if I would say this is espacially true in HA situations.

Steve Pribyl
spribyl at enteract.com
http://www.enteract.com/~spribyl

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Hal Flynn wrote:

> 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.
> 
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