02-23-2009
I'm with DukeNuke - periodic reboots have advantages, and show up problems. We take our boxes down over long (3 day) weekends, so it works out to several times per year.
However, we have 400+ blade servers running eithe Linux or Windoze - those are rebooted monthly.
If your grumps have left a box up for several years, taking it down has a higher probability of exposing problems, so in that case leave it alone. May be more trouble than you want. Older boxes are slower anyway - it may be possible that 4 years on a really old UNIX box is the same number of cpu cycles as you see on a new Linux dualcore PC in one month.
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