- > > Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly: > > > > > There were problems getting linux drivers to work on certain hardware > back then, but it was as good in terms of 'if it worked once it will > keep working' and if anything broke it could be fixed by replacing the > appropriate file. By RH7.3 it was about as solid as anything before or > since... I have one of those that is within a couple of months of a > 4-year uptime (counter has rolled twice) - and for a few years before > that it was only down for the reboots to update the kernel. > > *Every* windows box here has been down many times due to virus attacks > and the updates required to prevent more of them in that time span. > Wow! 4 years and no reboot? We have not hat that kind of success with our RHEL 3 Taroon 2.4.21-4ELsmp system (2 XEONS with 8GB memory). If we do not reboot at least once every 2 weeks, we start having memory starvation problems. Nightly scp copies to our backup development server start taking an extra hour to complete. Users complain of slow perfromance. We think that there is a memory leak problem somwhere or something is grabing memory for I-O buffers but not releasing any for furhter use. Our hardware/Linux support people just tell us to do a reboot which fixes the problem.
