Quoting Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net>: > Josh Welch <josh at joshwelch.com> wrote: >> This is why I actually like rebooting servers every so often, >> preferably in a controlled fashion when you have some available down >> time. > > Actually, we test reboot servers before patches that require reboots > (i.e. new kernel). That way, if the server fails to recover from the > test reboot, there are bigger problems to solve (i.e. disk failures). > You don't end up wasting hours applying patches only to have the > server never come back to life. > That's a hell of a sensible policy. Josh