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Posted by Neil on 12/07/07 17:04
"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> wrote in message
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> "Neil" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:NQZ5j.69213$RX.4340@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net...
>> OK, that's fine. But my POV is that rebooting in general, and resetting
>> the system memory, is a good thing to do. I take it that you disagree?
>>
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> Yes. I disagree.
>
> I've run systems with uptimes measured in years.
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> I see no value in rebooting a correctly setup system.
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>> "Michael Abair" <mabair@autotask.com> wrote in message
>> news:eTxBHcEOIHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Just because the reboot fixed the issue doesn't mean that a preventative
>>> reboot will stop it from occuring.
>>>
>>> A reboot might not have been needed to resolve the issue in the first
>>> place. Possibly a configuration change
>>> or bouncing a service could have resolved it. My advice is to spend
>>> some time researching the issue and if
>>> you cant find a way to resolve it then find a way to detect it and have
>>> it perform the least intrusive form of corrective action.
>>>
>>> -Mike
>>>
>>> "Neil" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
>>> news:5CY5j.76025$YL5.36846@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
>>>> Running a SQL 7 system on a Windows 2000 server using Access 2000 on
>>>> client machines as a front end. System administrator currently reboots
>>>> the server once a month. Yesterday we had some weird thing with the
>>>> database where users were getting ODBC errors when trying to access it.
>>>> Rebooted the server, everything was fine. Suggested to the sa that he
>>>> reboot the server once a week. He said he already does it once a month,
>>>> and that's sufficient.
>>>>
>>>> My POV is that: a) doing it once a week might prevent situations such
>>>> as the one yesterday; b) even without situations like the one
>>>> yesterday, performance may be degrading over the course of the month,
>>>> without our being aware of it, and rebooting once a week might help
>>>> performance.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Neil
>>>>
>>>
>>>
Thanks.
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