@prettygood @pwm What's wrong with rebooting a machine?

@prettygood
> my own personal servers get a monthly reboot

Those are rookie numbers. My personal machines reboot nightly. @pwm

@jae Why not? @pwm @prettygood

@adiz @pwm @prettygood

Why not?

this feels like a redirect to avoid answering a question.

but okay.

if by chance there’s a memory leak, hard to trace when you’re often rebooting
if by chance you have a service hanging that won’t exit properly it can potentially cause problems if writing to data source/filesystem
if running dbase and transactions are not committed. it’s a problem
rebooting clears cache layer of the system, takes a while to rebuild
stability is hallmark of linux/bsd systems, take advantage

so why do you reboot nightly?

@jae Reset the system/services, clear memory, in my mind keeps the system "healthy" having a clean boot daily. Many problems I've faced in the past have been cleared with a reboot, or were, rather, otherwise, directly or by proxy, the result of the system never getting a reboot. Maybe I should move to weekly reboots as well. 🤷 @pwm @prettygood