17 Apr
2010
17 Apr
'10
12:37 p.m.
On 17/04/10 12:41, Andy Bennett wrote:
Not sure about when "time was" actually occurred, but I would consider
three to four years between reboot essentially dereliction of sysadmin
duties. If anything I would say kernel security etc. has improved over
the years - I would have said you can go longer now than you could in
the past between upgrades, but that you need to be much more timely
about applying updates because the internet is that much more hostile.
I would also say that I don't see the point of not rebooting. If doing
maintenance on machines results in problematic service downtime then the
problem is the design of the service, not the need to do maintenance.
Cheers
Alex.
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I don't know if you keep stats on how often
users reboot their VMs
(you'd hope more than once a year)
What? Oh how things have changed. Time was you'd expect to go three or
four years between reboots.