Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 09/15/2010 02:20 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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>> The bottom line is the reboot policy should be based upon what you are=

>> running.
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> Which is what I wrote at the start.
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I agree, this was the consensus, but the OP was just looking for some
outside guidance. IMHO, if there is no reason to reboot, then don't. In
the very near future, we will be able to patch running kernels.

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