I've seen servers that have uptime measured in a few hundred days with no problems at all (I've personally admined one that was up for almost 3 months before we had downtime due to a power outage). About the only time that you should have to reboot (or shutdown) the system is either when you upgrade hardware or update the kernel. Other than that, there isn't a need to.
Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:34 PM 01/29/2002 -0800, you wrote: >>>> I run a linux server, that hosts multiple chat servers. I used to do this on Windows 2000 and required a reboot at least once a week. I am curious now that I've switched to Mandrake Linux 8.1 how often should I reboot to clear things out to avoid unwanted down times, here is my uptime information 10:30pm up 12 days, 2:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 If I know how often It needs to rebooted I could setup a script to do it and tell my customers that its down every blah blah time for a blah blah amount of time... ?? Any ideas?
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