I have two linux machines that have been up since July. They were
shut down because one of the apartments above our business
had an electrical fire. We got them shutdown before the
ups ran out of battery. Before that they had 9 months from
its original install without a problem.
Linda Hanigan
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> Mahalakshmi wrote:
>
> > > Is there any limitation for UNIX machines that they should be restarted
> > > after n days.
>
> Nope.
>
> > > Windows crashes automatically
>
> I love that expression!
>
> > > if the m/c is not switched off
> > > for 49.7 days and this is accepted by Microsoft.
>
> (This may be inaccurate for recent releases of Windows, BTW, though I
> haven't looked it up in a long time.)
>
> Lots of unforgivable things are accepted by Microsoft. There is no
> excuse for any modern, production-ready OS to require periodic reboots
> except in cases of OS upgrades or hardware-level adjustments. If Linux
> needs to reboot after N hours of uptime, there's probably a memory leak
> somewhere and Linus Needs To Know.
>
> > > I heard that the unix system cud probably be rebooted after n days in order
> > > to flush some memory space,inode entries etc..
>
> >From whom? Ed Muth and Jim Allchin?
>
> A quick look around home and office shows at least three machines (one
> Linux and two OpenBSD) with uptimes above 50 days. Sort of disappointed
> that I couldn't find anything longer but I tinker a lot.
>
> --
> Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation
>
>
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