[ale] uptime, cool--New topic, keeping power on

[Paul Cartwright]

On Sun September 3 2006 2:28 pm, Stephen R. Blevins wrote:
> My personal bent has been to bring my UNIX machines down to a
> complete halt and restart them
> at least once a week. My theory is that this cleans up some tables
> and (maybe) reclaims
> "leaked" memory. Your mileage may vary.
I used to do that at work. I'd back em up ( full backup, incrementals 
were done daily) and reboot em every thursday. clean out the temp 
folders, restart the  tables..
sometimes that gave me a warning, when hardware was starting to go 
bad..
-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800