Quoting Dave Carlson <thecubic at thecubic.net>: > We (at work) have a Solaris machine that just rebooted that was up > 1400+ days. > Of course, as soon as it did, it unleashed hell and the iPlanet server > wouldn't start. So, the machine with the highest uptime is now a linux > server (RedHat 7.2) with 1350+ days. > > Especially now with the DST 2007 patching (which is not optional), a lot of > bad problems are showing up on Solaris boxes that had been festering. The > package management and integrated LVM on Linux help out a lot in contrast. > In fact, the DST patching for Linux (packaged and simple) puts the others to > shame. > > I don't share Chad's experience in that supporting it makes me dislike it > less. I would say that that's true though for AIX in my sense. > This is why I actually like rebooting servers every so often, preferably in a controlled fashion when you have some available down time. Things crop up at reboot that you had forgot about, or put off, or didn't know about in the first place, when you reboot a server. The longer you go between rebooting a server the less likely you are to remember what you had to do to fix it the last time :). Josh