a can of duster will help you with cobwebs better than rebooting :P
our servers generally run for hundreds of days and in many cases much
longer. there should be no need to electively restart os x server,
unless conditions warrant so.
On 1/31/06, Brian Garrett <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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
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