> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Prasad Pillarisetti > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:42 AM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Reboots > > > ***Do you perform downtimes just for the purpose of rebooting the systems? It's a matter of policy. We do not but all of our customer facing systems are load balanced. If they weren't and the reboot wasn't of an emergency nature then yes, we would reboot during a maintenance window. > ***Is there a recommended interval Linux system should be rebooted? Ideally never. You should only need to reboot for hardware or kernel changes. We have internal machines that have been up for over 3 years without interruption (let the uptime contest begin). -- Marc