[Samba] Re: Best practices for long-running Samba server

[Spike Burkhardt]

Paul & David,

  Good points that I agree with but at least at three managers I've had want to the uptime get bigger & bigger.  Something about the 99.95% uptime
"industry standard." :-(((  Ridiculous.

spike

Paul Gienger wrote:

> David Landgren wrote:
>
> >>The client running our first Samba3 PDC production server had an uptime of 115 days, then the uptime got spoiled by them moving to a new building.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'm not quite sure what the fascination is with long uptimes. It's
> >good to reboot the system from time to time, not because it needs it,
> >but just to prove that you still can.
> >
> >
> Here here.  I've seen it posted elsewhere and it makes a good point -
> long uptimes show that the machine hasn't had its updates run on the
> core OS.  Until you can find a way to reload the kernel without
> rebooting (oxymoron) long uptimes are a mark of lazyness.
>
> What I'd rather see is longest stretch of not having to be rebooted
> between the hours of 7am and 6pm.  Unfortunately the uptime command
> doesn't tell us that ;)
>
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