Re: How often do you reboot servers?

Den 30/06/11 04.16, David Gibbs skrev:

I just rebooted my mail server after almost a year of uptime.

As it rebooted, it did a full fsck of the main drive.

I'm looking for opinions ... how often should you reboot a server ...
even if it's just for getting things like fsck to run?

Normally the software updates occasionally need to update a essential component, requiring a reboot to do so. This frequency seems reasonable to me for non-essential production. A year seems quite long - what distribution are you running?

The fsck is not necessarily required, but is most likely triggered because the mount command has been configured (usually by the vendor) to invoke a full fsck regularily. Modern journalling file systems do not require this, so it is just to play safe.