A unix box or a mainframe that needs rebooting is generally considered
broken.
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:11, Andrew Hall wrote:
> 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/
> >
>