We do the maintenance reboot (and other various log cleanups etc) as part of
our normal maintenance practice. We don't really 'need' to do this, however
we've traditionally found that operating systems perform better with an
occassional reboot (cleanup fragmented memory etc.).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Fuhr" <mike@fuhr.org>
To: "Andrew Hall" <temp02@bluereef.com.au>
Cc: "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>; "Alban Hertroys"
<alban@magproductions.nl>; "Marco Colombo" <pgsql@esiway.net>;
<pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Lost rows/data corruption?
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:40:25PM +1100, Andrew Hall wrote:
>>
>> We have an automated maintenance process that reboots all our
>> customers machines every 10 days at 2am.
>
> What's the purpose of doing this? If it's necessary then the reboots
> aren't really fixing anything. Is whatever problem that prompted
> this procedure being investigated so a permanent fix can be applied?
>
> --
> Michael Fuhr
> http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
>