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Tempest 06-01-2006 01:20 PM

Should a server be rebooted regularly??
 
I've noticed that when my servers have been running for 100+ days, odd things sometimes start to happen. Like today one that was up for 142 days had the ftp stop working. Restarting the ftp server didn't help, had to reboot the entire server. So should a server be rebooted regularly? once a month? every couple months?

liquidmoe 06-01-2006 01:27 PM

Technically speaking unless you are performing some kind of maintenance that requires a reboot such as upgrading the OS you shouldnt have to reboot the machines. Some daemons may start acting funny after a while for different reasons, but you should be able to stop and restart them, freeing up all of their memory without an issue.

detoxed 06-01-2006 01:38 PM

I reboot mine every 5 minutes.

directfiesta 06-01-2006 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by detoxed
I reboot mine every 5 minutes.


:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

.. and let it cool down for another five ....


Seriously : No.

And as stated above, you could once in a while NEED to restart some services, or kill background process ....

fuzebox 06-01-2006 01:43 PM

Any decent OS (read: FreeBSD) should never need rebooting short of a kernel upgrade... I've had servers go 2 years before a reboot.

You will have to restart services occasionally of course, due to memory leaks, runaway processes, etc.

pornguy 06-01-2006 01:43 PM

We try to have ours rebooted every 90 to 120 days. It only takes a few min, and the company that does it looks for slow traffic times to do it in.

fetishblog 06-01-2006 01:43 PM

The only time you should reboot your server is if you've upgraded the kernel or some other critical system component. Don't need to reboot it if you're just upgrading apache or proftpd or php. If something is not responding on it's own, you've got an issue you need to get checked out.

Googled 06-01-2006 01:48 PM

every minute or two. ;)

flashbang 06-01-2006 01:50 PM

up 267 days, 11:16, 2 users, load averages: 1.12, 1.21, 1.16

react 06-01-2006 06:23 PM

Unless, of course, you are running Windows servers. See eBay's weekly maintenance downtime, for example.

Aric 06-01-2006 06:44 PM

9:42PM up 546 days, 50 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.12, 0.22, 0.18 .. and no problems :thumbsup

minusonebit 06-01-2006 06:50 PM

My NOC lost power and killed my uptime record of 700 days (bastards!)

Uptime 68 days 2 hours 36 minutes
Current Users 0
Load Averages 0.47 0.61 0.62

Methodcash Rick 06-01-2006 06:55 PM

top - 19:27:19 up 794 days, 23:02, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.43, 0.17
Tasks: 148 total, 1 running, 147 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu0 : 3.1% us, 0.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 95.3% id, 0.1% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.6% si
Cpu1 : 0.5% us, 0.2% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.2% id, 0.1% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Cpu2 : 0.1% us, 0.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Cpu3 : 0.1% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 2074472k total, 1936188k used, 138284k free, 117072k buffers
Swap: 4096564k total, 144k used, 4096420k free, 1555248k cached

u-Bob 06-02-2006 05:11 AM

If your server needs regular reboots, something's wrong.


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