A colleague of mine and I are having a philosophical debate over
rebooting OS X Servers running on the Apple Xserve (G4 and G5's)
hardware. These Xserves host a series of home directories (around
75) and various other share points. There are some internal
websites also hosted there, but nothing else these systems do (but
they do a lot!)
His argument is that it doesn't hurt to reboot the system each day
to clear the cobwebs out of the system and to fix any processes that
have gone awry. That way it also would expose any problems the
system might have the previous day during the reboot (and
consequently causing a problem when the folks who use it come in to
use the system).
My argument is that the OS is built as a server class system and is
meant to be up and running 24X7 without reboots. And if there is a
problem it's best to isolate the problem, kill the service and
restart it. My compromise is to schedule quarterly (as an example
for a time period) reboots where we can apply patches/updates etc.
at a time that it won't effect the users (such as on a weekend).
Who's right on this? Or if it's not a matter of who's right and
who's wrong - any suggestions on what's the better method of
practice?
TIA.
Brian
Reboot IMHO Daily is too often I recommend once a week.
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