On 3/5/19 6:04 AM, Sam Hill wrote:

Yeah, I suppose it was a bit of a tangent. But your statement that "24/7"
equates to "reboot each night" grabbed my immediate attention. As Char
stated, that was just wrong!

Hi Sam,

I kill filed Char years ago. I do not see anything she writes.
You trust what she says at you own risk.

Also keep in mind in these kinds of forums that there are always
those that make it their life's work to defend the honor of their
favorite software, working or not. A polite name for them
is "tech evangelists". They are pains in the ass. Eventually
they wind up in my kill file, as did Char.

Home users that run (not use) 24/7 typically are doing so because
they want immediate access and they don't care about the energy
cost. And sometimes because they have viruses and have a bad time
getting their computers to restart and are too cheap to get them
fixed.

Providing everything else is okay, rebooting in the middle of the
night have solved these issues.

I have also had to do the reboot thing on some Windows Servers.
They are not very reliable. I typically make them reboot
after their backup completes in the night. One one machine,
it would prince 4" letter across their order form if the
server was left running more than two days. It was hysterical.
I had a good laugh when they showed me their sales forms.

For enterprise 24/7, Paul is your best guy to ask. It is a whole
different ball game. Also, enterprise level typically will
use more reliable systems, such as Linux. By the way, that
last remark will typically blow the head off a tech evangelist.
Unfortunately their heads do grow back.

Now you are completely free to disregard my advice as well.
This is what I have done and this is my experience. And I
am making a concerted effort to help folks, not to stalk
them and disparage them, as does Char.

-T