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

Subject: Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
From: richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:57:26 -0400
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On Sep 15, 2010, at 1:44 AM, Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> ...where he was clearly talking about virtual memory, and then you

No, actually, it was not clear, given the context of memory fragmentation and applications that suffer for it.  If an application is paging to disk then you have far, far worse problems to deal with than memory fragmentation.

--Rich P.

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- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: jack-rp9/bkPP+cDYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org (Jack Coats)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: invalid-yPs96gJSFQo51KKgMmcfiw at public.gmane.org (Derek Martin)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: invalid-yPs96gJSFQo51KKgMmcfiw at public.gmane.org (Derek Martin)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)
- Best practice for production servers: To reboot or not to reboot?
  - From: invalid-yPs96gJSFQo51KKgMmcfiw at public.gmane.org (Derek Martin)

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