[nycbug-talk] FBSD sysutils/bsdstats

[Marc Spitzer]

On 8/13/06, Max Gribov <max at neuropunks.org> wrote:
>
> uptime can be considered "badge of honor"  in a sense that the os you're
> using does not have too many kernel issues, the fact that you made a
> custom enough kernel not to worry about useless issues, and plus the
> fact that things rarely go wrong in the bsd server world.
>

I think uptime, as we are talking about it, is kinda silly.
Personally I am in favor of rebooting production boxes at least
quarterly.  It can be really interesting to see what shakes loose.
Also it gives you a framework of scheduled outages to do other stuff
in, non critical patches or a bit of kernel tuning etc.  Also the Idea
of patching libraries and not rebooting without a very good reason,
and a lot of checking to see you actually restarted *EVERYTHING* that
calls it, is asking for trouble.  I do not think the system will
reload the same shared lib if there is a copy sitting in memory,
rebooting fixes this issue.

Geeks should not do Tarzan, after we beat our chests we need to check
for bruises.

marc

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