Re: Long uptimes are a disaster waiting to happen
I agree that rebooting things more frequently is a nice thing to do, but when you have legacy applications which aren't horizontally scalable, then it can be extremely difficult to get the downtime. I had a bunch of Netapps with over three years of uptime before I was allowed to shut them down, and then only because we were moving them across town.
Let me tell you, when they booted and came up fine, I was very happy! They were off netapp support, and disk failures were at the wrong end of the bathtub curve... it's got to be replaced one of these days, but they won't move until it falls over I suspect.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
