I have a ? concerning planned reboots of a HPUX 11.11 (RP7410 machine; 10GB RAM; Oracle 8; BaaN v4c4 ERP). My new boss seems to think that all machines (Wintel & UX) should run 24x7x365 and NEVER ever require a reboot. In the practical world we SysAdmins know that sometimes a reboot for the heck of it improves performance and solves goofy problems caused by application memory leaks, etc. I was wondering if there is any documentation out there, or best practices to determine when to schedule a reboot of UX boxes. Our boxes have been running for 4months w/ zero problems. We’re just now experiencing some slowness and are planning a simple reboot. I know that this 4months is much longer than most of our Wintel boxes and we’re proud of 4months. Any help/hints/best practices/white papers would be great to show that yes UX machines do need to be rebooted sometimes and that other people in the world cannot run their machines forever. Thanks in advance.
